Definitions for punts

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punts punt

Spelling: [puhnt]

IPA: /pʌnt/

Punts is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in punts (npstu).

Definitions for punts

noun

1. Football. a kick in which the ball is dropped and then kicked before it touches the ground. Compare drop kick, place kick.
2. a small, shallow boat having a flat bottom and square ends, usually used for short outings on rivers or lakes and propelled by poling.
3. Glassmaking. kick (def 23b).
4. Cards. a person who lays a stake against the bank.
5. a monetary unit of the Republic of Ireland until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 pence; Irish pound.
6. kick (def 23b).
7. an ancient Egyptian name of an area not absolutely identified but believed to be Somaliland.

verb (used with object)

1. Football. to kick (a dropped ball) before it touches the ground.
2. to propel (a small boat) by thrusting against the bottom of a lake or stream, especially with a pole.
3. to convey in or as if in a punt.

verb (used without object)

1. to punt a football.
2. to propel a boat by thrusting a pole against the bottom of a river, stream, or lake.
3. to travel or have an outing in a punt.
4. Informal. to equivocate or delay:
5. Cards. to lay a stake against the bank, as at faro.
6. Slang. to gamble, especially to bet on horse races or other sporting events.

Origin of punts

before 1000; 1835-45 for def 1; Old English: flat-bottomed boat (not attested in Middle English) Latin pontō punt, pontoon¹; sense “to kick a dropped ba

Examples for punts

If you thought Lucy was going to get into the Thanksgiving spirit and finally let Charlie Brown punt that football, think again.

Muscle was needed for the punt; nothing but wit could save the schooner.

They reached the bank and walked across the punt into the house-boat.

He leaped from the deck of the Black Eagle into his own punt in a greater rage than ever.

At a short distance from the shore the punt was floating on the still waters.

And yet when confronted with a bona fide epidemic in its southern desert, Arizona has chosen to punt.

punt Return Brings 49ers Closer How did San Francisco score so much in such little time, you ask?

With that the fisherman turned his punt about and made off for the shore.

But, as you are fond of games of chance, I advise you never to punt.

For you, Saturn trining Neptune is a wake-up call to document ideas, first, and then punt them out into the universe.