They get a leg up

Usage examples of punters.

BBS and the delta, slides away from it as the data slows around her, using her own separate momentum to carry her a little further into the swirling light, the bright icons of the advertisers and the punters and the users blending into a single shifting layer like the flow of a visible wind.

Lights still flickered on the pari-mutuel, changing the odds: races in America tended to start when the punters had finished, not to any rigid clock.

He kept looking from side to side at the punters milling around as though at any moment one of them would point, and laugh, and tell him that this was all a joke, a premature birthday game.

It is to insult one of his punters so much that the victim walks out, but to do it in such a way that the others applaud.

He has to content himself with smoothing his hand across his stomach and distracting himself by paying attention to what the punters are saying.

Keep the punters happy is his motto, gleaned from months of experience of being a guru.

For this improvement in his fortunes, he has a lot to thank the punters who attend his courses.

The constant need to find new punters for his workshops entails seeking out mailing lists at every opportunity.

In the country, the punters, I mean students, could make a holiday of it.

Visions come to him: of standing in the doorway, being stormed by claustrophobic punters anxious to escape the crowded studio.

From where he was watching there was a constant to-ing and fro-ing of punters, but there was also a suspiciously large presence of big men in leather jackets with heavy boots and shaven heads.

Three down, the high hopes of owners, trainers, lads, and punters blown to the wind.

As the hundreds of notes fluttered down onto the corner pub on Cambridge Street, the punters must have thought Christmas had been brought forward to June.

Eric had disappeared, his character superseded by a more waspish persona, an alter-ego that regarded the punters through cynical spangled eyes for a moment before slipping between the mouldy red velvet curtains and acknowledging the entrance music to the roar of an appreciative crowd.