Crossword clues for punter
punter
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Punter \Punt"er\, n. [Cf. F. ponte. See Punt, v. t.]
One who punts; specifically, one who plays against the banker
or dealer, as in baccara and faro.
--Hoyle.
Punter \Punt"er\, n. One who punts a football; also, one who propels a punt.
Punter \Punt"er\, n. (London Stock Exchange) A scalper.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1888 in football, agent noun from punt (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who bets (punts) against the bank. 2 One who oars or poles a punt (pontoon). 3 One who punts a football. 4 (context British slang English) one who gambles. See speculator. 5 (context British slang English) A customer of a commercial establishment, ''frequently'' of a pub or (alternatively) of a prostitute. 6 (cx climbing English) A beginner or unskilled climber
WordNet
Wikipedia
Punter may refer to:
Terms for types of people:
- Punter (football), a position in American or Canadian football
- Someone who uses a punt (boat)
- The customer of a prostitute (in British English)
Other uses:
- Punter (ship), a Dutch flatbottom ship type
- Punter (protocol), a file-transfer protocol
- The Punters, a Newfoundland traditional music group
- Ricky Ponting (born 1974), nicknamed Punter, a former Australian cricketer
- Punternet, an escort rating service
Punter is a protocol for file transfer developed in the 1980s by Steve Punter. There are various types of Punter such as PET Transfer Protocol (PTP), C1 and C2.
A punter (P) in American or Canadian football is a special teams player who receives the snapped ball directly from the line of scrimmage and then punts (kicks) the football to the opposing team so as to limit any field position advantage. This generally happens on a fourth down in American football and a third down in the Canadian version. Punters may also occasionally take part in fake punts in those same situations, when they throw or run the football instead of punting.
Usage examples of "punter".
The Irish are all around here and these merry punters pours out of their shacks to join the Sydney and Parramatta Town throng.
He and Steyn eased past some of the punters to get closer to the table.
Advice on how to deal with extreme emotional stress from stroppy punters.
Madame fainted away, the punters hurried out, and I followed their example, as soon as I had secured one-half of the gold which was on the table.
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.
Out there, stitching up the punters, shafting the oppos, getting stuck into the real job.
When Medini thought a sufficient number of punters were present he sat down at a large table, placed five or six hundred crowns in gold and notes before him, and began to deal.
His small bank did not contain more than five or six ducats, and the punters, men and women, were not more than twelve.
I have three hundred sequins myself, but that is not enough because the punters play high.
Besides I was easy and smiling when my bank was losing, and I won without shewing any avidity, and that is a manner which always pleases the punters.
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.