bunt
verb/bʌnt/
/bʌnt/
[transitive, intransitive] (North American English)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they bunt | /bʌnt/ /bʌnt/ |
| he / she / it bunts | /bʌnts/ /bʌnts/ |
| past simple bunted | /ˈbʌntɪd/ /ˈbʌntɪd/ |
| past participle bunted | /ˈbʌntɪd/ /ˈbʌntɪd/ |
| -ing form bunting | /ˈbʌntɪŋ/ /ˈbʌntɪŋ/ |
- bunt (something) (in baseball) to deliberately hit the ball only a short distanceTopics Sports: ball and racket sportsc2Word Originmid 18th cent.: probably related to the noun butt ‘a push or blow’ (the original sense).
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