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A kick in which the ball is dropped from the hands and kicked before it touches the ground.
Games. To lay a bet against the bank, as in roulette.
Chiefly British Slang. To gamble.
French ponter, from obsolete pont, past participle of pondre, to put (obsolete), to lay an egg, from Old French, to lay an egg, from Latin pnere. See apo- in Indo-European Roots.]
To execute a punt.
Informal. To cease doing something; give up: Let's punt on this and try something else.
An open flatbottom boat with squared ends, used in shallow waters and usually propelled by a long pole.
Probably Middle English *punt, from Old English punt, from Latin pont, pontoon, flatbottom boat, from pns, pont-, bridge. See pent- in Indo-European Roots.]
The indentation in the bottom of a champagne or wine bottle.
To punt a football.
Act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence [syn: Irish pound, pound] 2: an open flat-bottomed boat used in shallow waters and propelled by a long pole 3: kicking in which the football is dropped from the hands and kicked before it touches the ground [syn: punting] v 1: kick the ball; in certain kinds of sports 2: propel with a pole; of barges on rivers, for example [syn: pole] 3: place a bet on; "Which horse are you backing?" "I'm betting on the new horse" [syn: bet on, back, gage, stake, game]
(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 run-time system."
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