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punter

Syllables: pun·ter/ˈpɐ̞n.tə/UK/ˈpʌn.tə/

punter noun: one who rows or poles a punt or pontoon.

Noun (1)

punter (plural punters)

  1. One who rows or poles a punt or pontoon.

Noun (2)

punter (plural punters)

  1. One who punts a football.
  2. (Internet) A program used to forcibly disconnect another user from a chat room.
    • 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.2001, Roger A. Grimes, Malicious Mobile Code: Virus Protection for Windows, page 236

Noun (3)

punter (plural punters)

  1. One who bets against the bank.
  2. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang) One who gambles or bets.
    • […] 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.1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 574
    • By Savernake the train was 4½min early; we then had the thrill of sweeping through Newbury at 95 m.p.h.—and one wonders if any of the punters on the neighbouring racecourse had any eyes for our flying cavalcade as we swept by, for it was a race day—[…].1964 June, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 387
  3. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang) A customer of a commercial establishment, frequently of a pub or (alternatively) of a prostitute.
    • I was doing the Jonathan Lowrie death tour with half a dozen or so punters.2000 February 5, Douglas Watkinson et al., “Beyond the Grave”, in Midsomer Murders
    • She's working the streets like she does every night
      Pulling in punters left and right2007, “Suzanne”, in Paint it Blacker, performed by Plan B
  4. A beginner or unskilled climber.
  5. The person who keeps score in basset or ombre.
  6. (Scotland) A person who trades with a gang but is not a gang member.
    • 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.2013, James Patrick, A Glasgow Gang Observed

punter meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

punter in Hindi

पंटर

punter in Marathi

पंटर

punter in Urdu

گاہک, ٹھوکر مارنے والا

punter in Bengali

পন্টার
More languagesFewer languages
punter in Telugu
పంటర్
punter in Malayalam
ചൂതാട്ടക്കാരൻ, ചൂതുകളിക്കാരൻ, അക്ഷകിതവൻ, കിതവൻ
punter in Kannada
ಪಣಗಾರ, ಜೂಜುಕೋರ, ಬಾಜಿಗಾರ, ಜೂಜಾಳಿ
punter in Punjabi
ਪੰਟਰ
punter in Gujarati
પંટર, પન્ટર
punter in Nepali
पन्टर, पंटर

Examples of punter in a sentence

  • Everybody knows your mum is a whore / Getting 'round Piccadilly looking for willy / Punters pull up and say "don't be silly"2016 March 7, “Road Rage (Freestyle)”, performed by Little T (Josh Tate):
  • The number of UK pubs is falling and there is less consensus about how punters should behave.2018 June 6, Tony Naylor, “The new rules of pub etiquette: don't flirt with bar staff or steal the glasses”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

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Synonyms of punter

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Forms of punter

pluralpunters

Plural of punter: punters

Origin of punter

From punt (“a kind of boat”) + -er.

From punt (“to dropkick, especially in sports”) + -er.

From punt (“a point in faro, gambling, a gamble”) + -er.

Words formed from punter

Words that rhyme with punter

Questions about punter

What does punter mean?
Punter means one who rows or poles a punt or pontoon.
What is punter in Hindi?
Punter in Hindi is पंटर. See Punter meaning in Hindi.
How do you use punter in a sentence?
Everybody knows your mum is a whore / Getting 'round Piccadilly looking for willy / Punters pull up and say "don't be silly"
What part of speech is punter?
Punter is a noun.
How do you pronounce punter?
Punter is pronounced /ˈpʌn.tə/ (UK).
What is the plural of punter?
The plural of punter is punters.

Words near punter in the dictionary

  1. puntees
  2. puntel
  3. puntelli
  4. puntello
  5. puntels
  6. punter
  7. punters
  8. Punti
  9. Puntian
  10. Puntians
  11. punties

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: punter (page history and authors); punter (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); punter (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); punter (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); punter (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); punter (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); punter (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); punter (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); punter (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); punter (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); punter (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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