Definitions for punt
pʌntpunt

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Irish pound, Irish punt, punt, poundnoun

   formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence

2. puntnoun

   an open flat-bottomed boat used in shallow waters and propelled by a long pole

3. punt, puntingverb

   (football) a kick in which the football is dropped from the hands and kicked before it touches the ground

   "the punt traveled 50 yards"; "punting is an important part of the game"

4. puntverb

   kick the ball

5. punt, poleverb

   propel with a pole

   "pole barges on the river"; "We went punting in Cambridge"

6. bet on, back, gage, stake, game, puntverb

   place a bet on

   "Which horse are you backing?"; "I'm betting on the new horse"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To Puntverb

   To play at basset and ombre.

   One is for setting up an assembly for basset, where none shall be admitted to punt, that have not taken the oaths. Add.

   When a duke to Jansen punts at White’s,
   Or city heir in mortgage melts away,
   Satan himself feels far less joy than they. Alexander Pope.

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1. punt

   A punt can refer to several things depending on the context: 1. In football and other similar sports, a punt is a method of kicking the ball dropping from the hands and then kicking it before it hits the ground. 2. In boating, a punt is a flat-bottomed boat with a square-cut bow, used in small rivers and shallow water, typically propelled by a pole. 3. In betting, a punt refers to taking a chance or a gamble. 4. In British slang, a punt is another term for a customer, especially a patron of bars or brothels.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Puntverb

   to play at basset, baccara, faro. or omber; to gamble

2. Puntnoun

   act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc

3. Puntnoun

   a flat-bottomed boat with square ends. It is adapted for use in shallow waters

4. Puntverb

   to propel, as a boat in shallow water, by pushing with a pole against the bottom; to push or propel (anything) with exertion

5. Puntverb

   to kick (the ball) before it touches the ground, when let fall from the hands

6. Puntnoun

   the act of punting the ball

7. Etymology: [F. ponter, or It. puntare, fr. L. punctum point. See Point.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Punt

   In American and Canadian football, the ball is punted downfield to the opposing team, usually on the final down, with the hope of giving the receiving team a field position that is more advantageous to the kicking team when possession changes. The team in possession of the ball will typically punt the ball to the opposing team when they are on their final down, do not want to risk a turnover on downs by not gaining enough yardage to make a first down and are in such a field position that they do not believe they can successfully make a field goal. The purpose of the punt is for the team in possession, or "kicking team", to move the ball towards the opponent's end zone in order to maximize the distance the receiving team must advance the ball in order to score a touchdown when they take possession of the ball. A punt play involves the kicking team lining up at the line of scrimmage with the kicker, or punter, lined up usually 15 yards behind the center. The receiving team lines up with one or two players downfield to catch the ball. The center makes a long snap to the kicker who then drops the ball and kicks it before it hits the ground. The player who catches the ball is then entitled to attempt to advance the ball.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Punt

   punt, n. a flat-bottomed boat with square ends.—v.t. to propel, as a boat, by pushing with a pole against the bottom of a river: to kick the ball (in football) before it touches the ground, when let fall from the hands: to knock.—v.i. to pursue water-fowl in a punt with a punt-gun.—ns. Punt′er; Punt′-fishing, angling from a punt in a pond, river, or lake; Punt′-gun, a heavy gun of large bore used for shooting water-fowl from a punt; Punts′man, a sportsman who uses a punt. [A.S.,—L. ponto, a punt—pons, pontis, a bridge.]

2. Punt

   punt, v.i. to play at basset or ombre.—n. Punt′er, one who marks the points in basset or ombre. [Fr., through Sp.—L. punctum, a point.]

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. punt

   [from the punch line of an old joke referring to American football: “Drop back 15 yards and punt!”] 1. To give up, typically without any intention of retrying. “Let's punt the movie tonight.” “I was going to hack all night to get this feature in, but I decided to punt” may mean that you've decided not to stay up all night, and may also mean you're not ever even going to put in the feature. 2. More specifically, to give up on figuring out what the Right Thing is and resort to an inefficient hack. 3. A design decision to defer solving a problem, typically because one cannot define what is desirable sufficiently well to frame an algorithmic solution. “No way to know what the right form to dump the graph in is — we'll punt that for now.” 4. To hand a tricky implementation problem off to some other section of the design. “It's too hard to get the compiler to do that; let's punt to the runtime system.” 5. To knock someone off an Internet or chat connection; a punter thus, is a person or program that does this.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. punt

   An Anglo-Saxon term still in use for a flat-bottomed boat, used by fishermen, or for ballast lumps, &c.

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1. PUNT

   What does PUNT stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the PUNT acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

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1. PUNT

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Punt is ranked #44109 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Punt surname appeared 488 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Punt.
   
   97.5% or 476 total occurrences were White.
   1% or 5 total occurrences were of two or more races.

Matched Categories

1. • Irish Monetary Unit
   • Boat
   • Kick
   • Propel
   • Sport

How to pronounce punt?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of punt in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of punt in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of punt in a Sentence

1. Marina Pacheco:

   Weasels will go for anything that looks like food -- they've got a high metabolism and they've got to eat a lot, it doesn't surprise me that a weasel took a punt -- I've seen a photo of a weasel charging a group of sparrows, they're very hungry animals.

2. Clive Moore:

   If( Taiwan) really think a new nation in Pacific Island could be their diplomatic friend, perhaps it's worth a punt, but encouraging it, it would destroy Solomon Islands.

3. Taysom Hill:

   Its all about, in the NFL, winning the field position battle. We talk about it week in and week out, the punt is the biggest contributor to that, and the punt return. And we saw how that affected the game last week.

4. Jerry Rice:

   This may be a decision the The Buffaloes lament : A fumble on a conservative run play while trying to run out the clock with less than 30 seconds remaining until halftime. The Utes turned Jarek Broussards miscue into a 42-yard field goal by Jadon Redding as time expired to give the offense a little confidence boost. Ty Jordan shined in a matchup between two highly touted tailbacks. The freshman finished with 147 yards rushing. His counterpart, Broussard, started slow but finished with 80 yards, which was well below his 183.3 average. The Buffaloes suffered a huge blow in the first half when they lost linebacker Nate Landman to what could be a season-ending ankle injury. Using a scooter and wearing a leg brace, the emotional leader of the team returned to the sideline. His absence was felt in the second half. Jerry Rice gave The Buffaloes a 14-7 lead late in the first half with Colorados first punt return for a score since Sept. 9, 2017. Jerry Rice also scored on a bubble screen to put The Buffaloes up 21-10 moments in the the third quarter. The last Colorado player to record a TD on both a reception and a return( punt or kickoff) in the same game was Walter Stanley against Texas Tech on Sept. 12, 1981, according to the school. Rices feat felt bittersweet in light of the loss. Kind of hurts.

5. Eurasia Group:

   A short-term punt would merely delay and not eliminate the disruption risks of the debt limit.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=punt
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=punt
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/punt
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=punt
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=punt
7. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Punt
8. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=punt
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html