Dab
Dab verb - Hit lightly.
To touch
Both terms in one sentence
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Subverted in Big, when Susan tries to get Josh to touch her by leaving a dab of mustard at the corner of her mouth, but being fabulously Genre Blind to romance tropes, he merely points out the mustard and never tries to clean it himself, even when she pretends not to know where it is.
Source: Romance-Inducing Smudge
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