ALL meanings of punt
punt
P p - noun Technical meaning of 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." 1
- noun punt small boat 1
- intransitive verb punt go punting 1
- intransitive verb punt chauffeur a punt 1
- noun punt outing in a punt 1
- noun punt bet, wager 1
- noun punt an ancient Egyptian name of an area not absolutely identified but believed to be Somaliland. 1
- verb with object punt Football. to kick (a dropped ball) before it touches the ground. 1
- verb with object punt to propel (a small boat) by thrusting against the bottom of a lake or stream, especially with a pole. 1
- verb with object punt to convey in or as if in a punt. 1
- verb without object punt Cards. to lay a stake against the bank, as at faro. 1
- verb without object punt Slang. to gamble, especially to bet on horse races or other sporting events. 1
- verb punt to kick (a ball, etc) using a punt 0
- verb punt to gamble; bet 0
- noun punt a gamble or bet, esp against the bank, as in roulette, or on horses 0
- noun punt a person who bets 0
- noun punt (formerly) the Irish pound 0
- intransitive verb punt in certain card games, to bet against the banker 0
- noun punt a kick in which the ball is dropped and kicked before it hits the ground 0
- verb transitive punt to kick (a football) in this way 0
- noun punt a flat-bottomed boat with broad, square ends, usually pushed along by a long pole 0
- verb transitive punt to propel (a boat) by pushing with a pole against the bottom of a shallow river or lake 0
- verb transitive punt to carry in a punt 0
- intransitive verb punt to go in a punt 0
- noun punt the former basic monetary unit of Ireland, superseded in 2002 by the euro 0
- countable noun punt A punt is a long boat with a flat bottom. You move the boat along by standing at one end and pushing a long pole against the bottom of the river. 0
- verb punt When you punt, you travel along a river in a punt. 0
- countable noun punt The punt was the unit of money used in the Irish Republic. In 2002 it was replaced by the euro. 0
- countable noun punt The punt was also used to refer to the Irish currency system. 0
- countable noun punt In rugby and American football, a punt is a kick where you drop the ball and then kick it before it reaches the ground, so that it goes a long way. 0
- countable noun punt Punt is also a verb. 0
- noun punt an open flat-bottomed boat with square ends, propelled by a pole 0
- verb punt to propel (a boat, esp a punt) by pushing with a pole on the bottom of a river, etc 0
- noun punt a kick in certain sports, such as rugby, in which the ball is released and kicked before it hits the ground 0
- noun punt any long high kick 0