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
Part of speech: 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.
Part of speech: noun
the unit of money in the Republic of Ireland (to be replaced by the euro)
seealsoPUNT
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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