(v. i.) To play at basset, baccara, faro. or omber; to gamble.
(n.) Act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
(n.) A flat-bottomed boat with square ends. It is adapted for use in shallow waters.
(v. t.) To propel, as a boat in shallow water, by pushing with a pole against the bottom; to push or propel (anything) with exertion.
(v. t.) To kick (the ball) before it touches the ground, when let fall from the hands.
(n.) The act of punting the ball.
Example Sentences:
(1) Abbott has punted some key decisions off into a new defence white paper he'll commision if he wins next Saturday.
(2) Brees is sacked by Cliff Avril on third-and-nine, taking his team out of field goal range, and instead Thomas Morstead comes back out to punt.
(3) 6.46pm GMT Falcons 10 - Seahawks 0, 0:31 1st quarter On 3rd down, Wilson can't find Golden Tate on the far sideline and Seattle punt it down to the Atlanta 13.
(4) What a complete mess - a miscued shot, scuffed clearance, and uncontrolled toe-punt as he fell - but a decisive mess all the same."
(5) Backed up against his own end zone after a tremendous Anger punt, Ryan Fitzpatrick succeeded in dumping the ball off to Shonn Greene but then found that his team had given up a safety anyway, on account of a holding call against Chance Warmack in the end zone.
(6) Little Defoe was allowed to meet a hopeful punt with his head, mid-way inside the Arsenal half, and flick on the ball to Rafael van der Vaart.
(7) McGuinness added that the republic was better off when it had its own currency, the punt.
(8) 2.01am GMT Florida State 3-0 Auburn, 5:30, 1st quarter And THERE'S CHRIS DAVIS, he returns Guayo's punt for 22 yards to get Auburn to the Florida State 22!
(9) Sports Direct, the retailer run by its mecurial founder Mike Ashley, bought a 4.6% stake in Debenhams on Thursday night, in the company’s latest multimillion pound punt on a rival retailers’ shares.
(10) June 24, 2014 5.46pm BST Half time: Costa Rica 0-0 England 45 mins: A long punt downfield has the England defence in all sorts of trouble.
(11) Jay Prosch almost muffs a punt and then Auburn goes 3 and out, including an inexplicable wildcat play on 2nd down.
(12) Sacked by Dee Ford, AGAIN, for eight yards to force a punt.
(13) Akinfeev's punt upfield caused consternation in a City defence that never seems the same when Vincent Kompany, still sidelined with a thigh injury , is absent.
(14) 3.41am GMT Ravens 34 - 49ers 29, 0:11 of 4th Quarter On 3rd & 8, Leach runs for a few yards, and the Ravens call time before punting it away.
(15) Chris Davis almost muffs the punt return for Auburn, that's not as dirty as it sounds.
(16) 2.12am GMT And we're back On 3rd & 13, Kaepernick throws short to Walker, short of the first down, and the 49ers punt it into the end zone.
(17) Deep into stoppage time, Allardyce’s defence showed the same nervousness about which he had complained in last weekend’s draw at Stoke, failing to deal either with Cesc Fàbregas’s upfield punt or the header from César Azpilicueta that played in Nemanja Matic who finished neatly past the advancing Mannone.
(18) Panama try a punt forward from a free kick, but it's pretty optimistic and the US cheerfully clear it.
(19) He’s doing what he feels is right and that’s why he’s paid to be manager, to make those decisions.” Even as an inexperienced team they should not have been undone by a hopeful punt into a cluttered penalty box by one of the poorer sides at this tournament.
(20) Doing so would punt the fight over whether to lock in 2014 sequestration levels at $967 billion until December.
Punter
Definition:
(v. t.) One who punts; specifically, one who plays against the banker or dealer, as in baccara and faro.
(n.) One who punts a football; also, one who propels a punt.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of the punters came up to me after and said that I seemed confident, but he’d spent the whole time wondering when I was going to tell a joke.
(2) Hodgson left Ferdinand out of his Euro 2012 squad for "football reasons" and then appeared to confirm the end of his international career to a punter on the Tube, before recalling him in March.
(3) The eye-catching deal was that punters would have their stakes returned if the winning pope was black – or something like that.
(4) 1.56am GMT 49ers 17-13 Seahawks, 2:47, 3rd quarter Andy Lee is hit as he kicks and it's a five yard penalty rather than the personal foul you would get for crushing the punter.
(5) Teela Sanders , another academic who believes that regulation of prostitution is neither desirable nor possible, says of moves to criminalise punters: "Putting limits on private morality with regard to the legitimate purchase and provision of consensual commercial sex is evidence of a state seeking to control sexuality rather than to preserve diversity, difference and freedom."
(6) This is payback, without a doubt.” The workers recently won the support of Will Self, who supported a boycott of the venue, writing : “If the punters wake up and smell the crap coffee of corporate greed, perhaps we won’t be so keen on contributing to those revenues.
(7) It would mean that if the regulator found bookmakers' staff failing to intervene when punters lost too much money or not questioning why machines were played without a break, the shop could be closed down.
(8) There are some players still owed money by a team after they were released such as former Buffalo Bills punter Brian Moorman .
(9) At the Meadow Inn hotel, these statistics are embodied in a depressing tableau of punters slouched on stools, jabbing at flashing buttons.
(10) The code, introduced in February by the Association of British Bookmakers, was meant to tighten betting controls and defuse criticism of FOBTs, on which punters can bet up to £300 a minute.
(11) After the first-leg games, an unnamed punter wagered £5 on a four-fold bet, predicting the scores of four of the second legs .
(12) Tracksuit Dave, professional punter, owner and racecourse 'face' He's the greatest there's ever been.
(13) There is mention too of a punter's "right to have a bet", though strangely this basic freedom does not seem to appear in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
(14) The overall betting trend has shown one-way traffic for Obama and punters seem to have called it 100% correct.
(15) One NFL coach, speaking anonymously to Sports Illustrated after Sam came out, said: “I don’t think football is ready for [an openly gay player] just yet.” On Twitter, Chris Kluwe, a former Minnesota Vikings punter who has become an outspoken critic of attitudes to homosexuality within the NFL, said: “At least one team finally showed some balls.
(16) Some observers say the ban on smoking in clubs played its role: with a sly, discreet spliff no longer an option, punters switched to pills and energy levels accordingly rose.
(17) The Ukip leader, tongue firmly lodged in cheek, has recorded a “party political broadcast” on behalf of Paddy Power , exhorting punters to get behind Team Europe in this weekend’s Ryder Cup golf contest against the US.
(18) But is this "Bank of Joe Bloggs" a little bit too out there for mainstream punters?
(19) Indeed, while Jagger and co headlined to a packed Pyramid Stage, plenty of punters were elsewhere, watching a range of acts that included dance duo Chase & Status on the Other Stage and – cleverly – the Bootleg Beatles at the Acoustic Stage.
(20) Sav Rocca, punter Rocca played for North Melbourne and Collingwood during a 14-year AFL career, and is 13 th in the league’s all-time goalscoring list.