| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  p nt |
| INTRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: punt·ed, punt·ing, punts
1. Games To lay a bet against the bank, as in roulette. 2. Chiefly British Slang To gamble. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French ponter, from obsolete pont, past participle of pondre, to put (obsolete), to lay an egg, from Old French, to lay an egg, from Latin p nere. See apo- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | punt er —NOUN
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