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Punting

noun
1.
(football) a kick in which the football is dropped from the hands and kicked before it touches the ground.  Synonym: punt.  "Punting is an important part of the game"






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"Punting" Quotes from Famous Books



... carried toward the Princeton goal by means of shrewdly devised teamwork, instead of which the burden of the game was shifted to one man, the weakest link in the chain, the Freshman at full-back. He was punting with splendid distance, getting the ball away when it seemed as if he must be overwhelmed by the hurtling Tigers. Once or twice, however, a hesitant nervousness almost wrought quick disaster, and the Yale partisans watched him with ...
— Short Stories for English Courses • Various (Rosa M. R. Mikels ed.)

... Joan lazily, "you had suggested paddling to Reading, or punting several miles towards Henley, I should have burst into tears. And yet there are some people who deliberately set out to go somewhere. ...
— Mufti • H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile



Words linked to "Punting" :   boot, kick, football game, kicking, punt, football



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