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
Thom	TAHM	English
Eden	EE-dən (English)	Hebrew, English (Modern)
Sonja	ZAWN-yah (German), SON-yah (Finnish)	German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Finnish, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonia
JiŘÍ	-	Czech
Lavern	lə-VURN	English
Carmine	-	Italian