6 example sentences using punt.
Punt used in a sentence
Punt in a sentence as a noun
How does Airbnb handle these cases, or does it just punt by calculating and sorting the arithmetic mean?
A static compiler has to punt at a certain complexity.
They know it is difficult to compare people across disciplines, so they punt on the problem and just make it a contest.
Punt in a sentence as a verb
It's going to provide real user benefit, even if the users are paralyzed by FUD. Getting in the way of the process or trying to punt it out of mainline and onto everyone who ships a distro isn't going to help anyone.
We did some benchmarking on IRC today in light of this post and we found that Rust's stdio is currently quite slow due to a flag not being set properly in libuv which causes it to punt to a thread pool.
"This post is 5% "Here's my recommendation for a DNS service" and 95% "Notice how in return for an hour or two of grunt work a SaaS company just made it very easy for me to award them $2,000 of high-margin recurring revenue a year despite being twice as expensive as my pre-existing option by successfully overcoming my 'I would love to move off my existing solution but it requires grunt work so I think I'll punt on that decision for, oh, eight years' objection?
Punt definitions
formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence
See also: pound
an open flat-bottomed boat used in shallow waters and propelled by a long pole
(football) a kick in which the football is dropped from the hands and kicked before it touches the ground; "the punt traveled 50 yards"; "punting is an important part of the game"
See also: punting
kick the ball
propel with a pole; "pole barges on the river"; "We went punting in Cambridge"
See also: pole