Definitions for puntpʌnt

puntpʌnt(n.)

a kick, as in football or rugby, executed by dropping the ball and kicking it before it touches the ground.
Category: Sport
(v.t.)to kick (a dropped ball) before it touches the ground.
Category: Sport
(v.i.)to punt a ball.
Category: Sport
Informal. to equivocate or delay.
Category: Common Vocabulary, Informal

1835–45; cf. dial. (Midlands) punt to push, butt

punt′er(n.)

puntpʌnt(n.)

a small, shallow, flat-bottomed boat with square ends, propelled by poling.
Category: Navy
(v.t.)to pole (a small boat) along.
Category: Navy
to convey in a punt.
Category: Nautical, Navy
(v.i.)to pole a boat along.
Category: Navy
to travel or have an outing in a punt.
Category: Navy

bef. 1000; OE (not attested in ME) < L pontō punt, pontoon

punt′er(n.)

puntpʌnt(v.i.)

to lay a stake against the bank in certain card games, as faro.
Category: Games
Slang. to gamble, esp. to bet on sporting events.
Category: Common Vocabulary, Games, Status (usage)

1705–15; < F ponter, der. of ponte punter, point in faro < Sp puntopoint

punt′er(n.)

puntpʊnt, pʌnt(n.)(pl.)punt.

the basic currency of the Republic of Ireland, which has a fixed value relative to the euro.
Category: Numismatics

1970–75; < Ir < E pound2

Irish pound, Irish punt, punt, pound(noun)
formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence
punt(noun)
an open flat-bottomed boat used in shallow waters and propelled by a long pole
punt, punting(verb)
(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"
punt(verb)
kick the ball
punt, pole(verb)
propel with a pole
"pole barges on the river"; "We went punting in Cambridge"
bet on, back, gage, stake, game, punt(verb)
place a bet on
"Which horse are you backing?"; "I'm betting on the new horse"

Punt(verb)
to play at basset, baccara, faro. or omber; to gamble
Punt(noun)
act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc
Punt(noun)
a flat-bottomed boat with square ends. It is adapted for use in shallow waters
Punt(verb)
to propel, as a boat in shallow water, by pushing with a pole against the bottom; to push or propel (anything) with exertion
Punt(verb)
to kick (the ball) before it touches the ground, when let fall from the hands
Punt(noun)
the act of punting the ball

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.