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
Joanna	[dʒəu'ænə]
Kanta	-	Indian, Hindi, Bengali
Eugeneia	-	Ancient Greek
Aruna	-	Hinduism, Indian, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi
Gisa	GEE-zah	German
Burchard	BOOR-kahrt (German)	German, Ancient Germanic