punt

1. 1.

   kick the ball

   Broaderkick

   sport

2. 2.

   propel with a pole

   “pole barges on the river”

   “We went punting in Cambridge”

   Synonymspole

   Broaderpropel
3. 3.

   place a bet on

   “Which horse are you backing?”

   “I'm betting on the new horse”

   Synonymsbet onbackgagestakegame

   Broaderbet

   Narroweranteparlay

Other forms of punt

plural

punts·

past tense

punted·

present participle

punting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about punt

What does punt mean?

punt means "formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in punt?

punt has 1 syllable: punt. In IPA it is /ˈpʌnt/.

What is another word for punt?

Close synonyms include Irish pound, Irish punt, pound, punting, pole. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is punt a common word?

punt is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.