punt

/pˈʌnt/ · 1 syllable

Meaning

verb

1. kick the ball
2. propel with a pole
   “pole barges on the river”
3. place a bet on
   “Which horse are you backing?”

noun

1. formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence
2. an open flat-bottomed boat used in shallow waters and propelled by a long pole
3. (football) a kick in which the football is dropped from the hands and kicked before it touches the ground
   “the punt traveled 50 yards”

Synonyms for punt

• pole
• bet on
• back
• gage
• stake
• game
• Irish pound
• Irish punt
• pound
• punting

Words that rhyme with punt

• hunt
• front
• blunt
• bunt
• shunt
• confront
• grunt
• stunt
• affront
• cunt
• forefront
• battlefront
• brunt
• lakefront
• manhunt
• oceanfront
• upfront
• waterfront
• bunte
• dillahunt
• glunt
• hundt
• hunte
• jundt
• klundt
• lundt
• mundt
• munt
• pundt
• riverfront