punt

Universal Words noun, verb-see also PUNT noun 1 a long shallow boat with a flat bottom and square ends which is moved by pushing the end of a long pole against the bottom of a river 2 (BrE, informal) a bet: The investment is little more than a punt. 3 (in rugby or American football) a long kick made after dropping the ball from your hands verb 1 to travel in a punt, especially for pleasure: [V] We spent the day punting on the river. * to go punting [also VN] 2 [VN] to kick a ball hard so that it goes a long way, sometimes after it has dropped from your hands and before it reaches the ground: I punted the ball upfield. noun the unit of money in the Republic of Ireland (to be replaced by the euro) seealsoPUNT