A push dagger (alternately known as: punch dagger, punch knife, or push knife) is a short-bladed dagger with a "T" handle designed to be grasped and held in closed-fist hand, so that the blade protrudes from the front of the fist, either between the index and middle fingers, or between the two central fingers, when the grip and blade are symmetrical. Less often also called push dirk, which although a dirk is also a relatively short, close-combat thrusting blade, it is normally a long-bladed thrusting dagger.