American English pronunciation

How to pronounce bunt

IPA transcription: ['bʌnt]

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Noun

  • (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat

  • disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores

  • similar to Tilletia caries

  • fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores

Verb

  • to strike, thrust or shove against

    “He butted his sister out of the way”

    “The goat butted the hiker with his horns”

  • hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance

Usage examples

  • Doves sprouted, then escaped from various oversized pockets, some trailing handkerchiefs or bunting.
  • Hornsby laid down a sacrifice bunt to Shocker, moving each runner up a base.
  • This makes the remote Ubuntu windows look like native Windows applications, each with a named pinnable taskbar button.
  • Doves sprouted, then escaped from various oversized pockets, some trailing handkerchiefs or bunting.
  • Doves sprouted, then escaped from various oversized pockets, some trailing handkerchiefs or bunting.
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  • Doves sprouted, then escaped from various oversized pockets, some trailing handkerchiefs or bunting.
  • He injured himself, whipping a sidearm throw to first base on a swinging bunt.
  • Doves sprouted, then escaped from various oversized pockets, some trailing handkerchiefs or bunting.
  • The software I develop has to build and run on a special company-specific installation of Ubuntu.