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Punter
Definitions
- 1 One who rows or poles a punt (pontoon).
- 2 One who punts a football.
- 3 One who bets (punts) against the bank.
- 4 someone who bets wordnet
- 5 A program used to forcibly disconnect another user from a chat room. Internet
"Punters generate hundreds of information inquiries to a legitimate user's client, such as invitations to chat. […] The user is punted from the channel, and must rejoin to gain access."
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- 6 One who gambles or bets. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang
"[…] and having only peeped into a play-room at Baden-Baden when he hung on Dobbin's arm, and where, of course, he was not permitted to gamble, came eagerly to this part of the entertainment and hankered round the tables where the croupiers and the punters were at work."
- 7 (football) a person who kicks the football by dropping it from the hands and contacting it with the foot before it hits the ground wordnet
- 8 A customer of a commercial establishment, frequently of a pub or (alternatively) of a prostitute. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang
"She's working the streets like she does every night / Pulling in punters left and right"
- 9 someone who propels a boat with a pole wordnet
- 10 A beginner or unskilled climber.
- 11 The person who keeps score in basset or ombre.
- 12 A person who trades with a gang but is not a gang member. Scotland
"He had stolen 'trannies' (transistor radios) and hub caps from cars outside the main hotels in Glasgow, turning the collection into money through dealing with a 'punter' at Charing Cross."
Etymology
From punt + -er.
From punt + -er.
From punt + -er.
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