Meaning

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

    гребецgrebec

    someone who bets

  2. One who punts a football.

    Punter

    (football) a person who kicks the football by dropping it from the hands and contacting it with the foot before it hits the ground

  3. (Internet)A program used to forcibly disconnect another user from a chat room.

  4. One who bets against the bank.

  5. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang)One who gambles or bets.

    лудикludik, лудоманludoman

    someone who propels a boat with a pole

  6. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang)A customer of a commercial establishment, frequently of a pub or (alternatively) of a prostitute.

  7. A beginner or unskilled climber.

  8. The person who keeps score in basset or ombre.

  9. (Scotland)A person who trades with a gang but is not a gang member.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. There are few punters today.

    Сьогодні мало клієнтів.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · deniko · C1Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  2. What was the punters' reaction to it?

    CC BY · Tatoeba · vvv123 · C1Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  3. There are not many punters in that pub.

    deEs sind nicht viele Gäste in dem Lokal.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · sundown · C1Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  4. There's not a lot of punters in that pub.

    deEs sind nicht viele Gäste in dem Lokal.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · sundown · C1Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  5. I'm a punter. I like to bet on the horse races.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · chibiex · C1Open on TatoebaReport a problem

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
One who oars or poles a punt or pontoon:
One who gambles; a speculator:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
One who punts a football; one who propels a punt:

Origin

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

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.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: punters
Singularpunter
Pluralpunters

regular

Synonyms

24 synonyms

Word family

2 related words
Relatedpunt

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
punter — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto