(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.
Punto
Definition:
(n.) A point or hit.
Example Sentences:
(1) 11.10pm BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 1, top of the 7th Siegrist throws a wild pitch at 1-2 that allows Punto to advance to second base.
(2) 11.02pm BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 1, top of the 7th Nick Punto, the Shredder, hits a liner to centerfield and does Don Mattingly keep his starting pitcher in or pinch-hit?
(3) They try one more time and... Punto chases one and misses.
(4) 9.45pm BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 0, top of the 3rd Nick Punto leads off the third, with Hanley Ramirez reportedly away from the ballpark and getting x-rays and really this just sounds worse and worse for Los Angeles the more they talk about it.
(5) He turned up at Kettering in his Fiat Punto, played out of position on the right of midfield and worked tirelessly.
(6) 11.17pm BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 1, bottom of the 7th Molina grounds out to Punto, who has maybe been the Dodgers' best position player of the game.
(7) 9.28pm BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of the 1st Yadier Molina hits a ball that seems likely to sneak into the outfield but Nick Punto, in the game only because Hanley Ramirez is hurt, gobbles it up to make the third out of the inning and keep the Cardinals off the board.
(8) Even the strikeout of little Nick Punto can't illicit any joy, for some reason.
(9) 9.31pm BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of the 1st So, Yadier Molina gets stopped by Nick Punto.
(10) He faces old teammate James Loney, although I'm not sure if either of them remember his time as the post-Nick Punto Trade starting first baseman last season.
(11) By the trading deadline, the 2012 Red Sox were so clearly out of the postseason mix that they agreed to a payroll-clearing trade that sent Gonzalez, Crawford and Beckett (and Nick Punto of course), who were supposed to represent the future of the Boston Red Sox, to the suddenly cash-flush Los Angeles Dodgers .
(12) Nick Punto works a full count off of Michael Wacha before he strikes out on a high fastball, because he is Nick Punto, 9.43pm BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of the 2nd Jon Jay is up next for the the Cardinals, Kershaw gets him to ground out to Mark Ellis and that's six gone after that lead-off triple.
(13) 3.23am BST Hanley Ramirez He is done - Nick Punto is in.
(14) Inside his flat and his Fiat Punto car detectives found compelling evidence; small bottles of champagne, clear plastic gloves, a torch, sex toys, condoms, sleeping tablets and a heavy ashtray in which he crushed the powerful drugs to incapacitate his victims.
(15) Instead, the Dodgers' best hitter will be replaced in the lineup with Nick Punto.
(16) Seeing the Argentinian pope riding in a Fiat Punto, one of the least expensive of cars – his own choice – around the streets of Rio de Janeiro filled me with the deepest tenderness.
(17) Updated at 5.02am BST 3.13am BST Nick Punto grabs a glove... ...then he disappears from the dugout, which means he is warming up under the stands.
(18) Can the Detroit Tigers actually win a playoff series with Miguel Cabrera hitting like Nick Punto?
(19) 3.55am BST Dodgers 3 - Cardinals 0, top of 9th It will be Beltran, Holliday and Molina for St Louis as they look to get back in this ballgame - little Nick Punto is off the bench to replace the less than 100% Ramirez at shortstop to shore up the defense - he'll bat ninth as the pitchers spot moves to second in the order on the double switch.
(20) The Cardinals decide no because it's Nick freaking Punto.