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词组 punt
释义 punt
verb
  1. to gamble UK, 1873
    • anyone who wants to punt on the identity of the Conservative leader at the next election. — The Guardian, 20 March 2003
  2. to do poorly; to give up in some fashion because you are doing poorly US
    A metaphor from American football, where a team that has not advanced the ball ten yards after three plays will often choose to punt the ball to its opposition rather than risk giving up field position.
    • — Collin Baker et al., College Undergraduate Slang Study Conducted at Brown University, p. 178, 1968
    • — Eric S. Raymond, The New Hacker’s Dictionary, p. 291, 1991
  3. to vomit IRELAND
    • You don’t want Yer Man (q.v.) the tester to punt his lunch all over yeh. — Joseph O’Connor, The Irish Male at Home and Abroad, p. 54, 1996
punt the pail
to die UK: SCOTLAND
A jocular variation of KICK THE BUCKET
  • I’m as feart of punting the pail as the next man. — Ian Pattison, Rab C. Nesbitt, 1988
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