Punt

10 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Punt \Punt\, n.
     Act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Punt \Punt\, n. [AS., fr. L. ponto punt, pontoon. See
     {Pontoon}.] (Naut.)
     A flat-bottomed boat with square ends. It is adapted for use
     in shallow waters.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Punt \Punt\, v. t.
     1. To propel, as a boat in shallow water, by pushing with a
        pole against the bottom; to push or propel (anything) with
        exertion. --Livingstone.
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     2. (Football) To kick (the ball) before it touches the
        ground, when let fall from the hands.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Punt \Punt\, v. i. [F. ponter, or It. puntare, fr. L. punctum
     point. See {Point}.]
     To play at basset, baccara, faro. or omber; to gamble.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           She heard . . . of his punting at gaming tables.
                                                    --Thackeray.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Punt \Punt\, n. (Football)
     The act of punting the ball.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Punt \Punt\, v. i.
     1. To boat or hunt in a punt.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     2. To punt a football.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  punt
       n 1: formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100
            pence [syn: {Irish pound}, {Irish punt}, {pound}]
       2: an open flat-bottomed boat used in shallow waters and
          propelled by a long pole
       3: (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" [syn: {punting}]
       v 1: kick the ball
       2: propel with a pole; "pole barges on the river"; "We went
          punting in Cambridge" [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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  47 Moby Thesaurus words for "punt":
     ante, ante up, back, bet, bet on, boot, calcitration, call,
     catch a crab, cover, cut a crab, drop kick, fade, feather,
     feather an oar, gamble, give way, hazard, kick, kicking, knee, lay,
     lay a wager, lay down, make a bet, meet a bet, pace, paddle,
     parlay, pass, place kick, play against, plunge, ply the oar, pull,
     row, row away, row dry, scull, see, ship oars, shoot, sky an oar,
     speculate, stake, stand pat, wager
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  punt v. [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.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  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 run-time system."
       
          [{Jargon File}]