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单词 punt
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punt

noun
/pʌnt/
/pʌnt/
Idioms
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  1. enlarge image
    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
    Topics Transport by waterc2
  2. (British English, 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 handsTopics Sports: ball and racket sportsc2
  4. the former unit of money in the Republic of Ireland (replaced in 2002 by the euro)
  5. Word Originnoun sense 1 Old English, from Latin ponto, denoting a flat-bottomed ferry boat; readopted in the early 16th cent. from Middle Low German punte or Middle Dutch ponte ‘ferry boat’, of the same origin. noun sense 3 mid 19th cent.: probably from dialect punt ‘push forcibly’. Compare with bunt.
Idioms
take/have a punt (British English, informal)
  1. take/have a punt (on something/somebody) to choose something that involves some risk
    • Our first impressions aren't great, but I'm willing to take a punt on it.
    • Adventurous new investors might want to have a punt.
  2. take/have a punt (at something/doing something) to try to do something
    • He took a punt at explaining why he'd done it.

punt

verb
/pʌnt/
/pʌnt/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they punt
/pʌnt/
/pʌnt/
he / she / it punts
/pʌnts/
/pʌnts/
past simple punted
/ˈpʌntɪd/
/ˈpʌntɪd/
past participle punted
/ˈpʌntɪd/
/ˈpʌntɪd/
-ing form punting
/ˈpʌntɪŋ/
/ˈpʌntɪŋ/
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  1. [intransitive, transitive] punt (something) (+ adv./prep.) to travel in a punt, especially for pleasure
    • We spent the day punting on the river.
    • to go punting
    Topics Transport by waterc2
  2. [transitive] punt something (+ adv./prep.) (in rugby or American football) to drop a ball from your hands and kick it before it reaches the ground
    • I punted the ball upfield.
  3. Word Originverb sense 1 Old English, from Latin ponto, denoting a flat-bottomed ferry boat; readopted in the early 16th cent. from Middle Low German punte or Middle Dutch ponte ‘ferry boat’, of the same origin. verb sense 2 mid 19th cent.: probably from dialect punt ‘push forcibly’. Compare with bunt.
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