punt

(pənt)

in. to do something different in a pinch; to improvise. (From the act of kicking the ball in order to gain ground in football.) Everyone expected me to lose my temper, so I punted. I cried instead of getting mad.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Ware	[wɛə]
Margarethe	mahr-gah-RE-tə (German)	German, Danish
Manu (3)	MAH-noo	Finnish
Dekel	-	Hebrew
Idir	-	Northern African, Berber
Melati	-	Indonesian, Malay