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- noun Plural form of
punter . - noun slang The
general public , a body ofcustomers .
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Examples
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The reason why these matchmaking services are a draw to punters is because the way online dating works makes it very difficult to determine who might be compatible – so any filtering service is better than none.
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Speaking of position liquidation, short-term punters got it in both directions yesterday in currency-land, as EUR / USD inexplicably went uber-bid in the middle of the afternoon, prompting much sturm und drang over a trend breakout .... only to inexplicably go uber-offered a few minutes later, closing at the bottom of the recent
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Your corporate law firm that you work in can shoot higher than unsophisticated "punters" -- just as the house painters (who also did commercial work for contractors who knew what to look for in a good client) could get way better clients than me.
What About Paris? JD Hull 2010
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We get to meet lots of the punters, which is brilliant.
Speed Dating: Bikesure Launches Bikes And Babes Calendar Thatsnews 2008
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We get to meet lots of the punters, which is brilliant.
Archive 2008-11-01 Thatsnews 2008
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Now, as John mentioned in his session, this act has nothing to do with specific selection, it's just that some of the punters will be able to clean up/process/run with the stuff that was presented to us.
Poetic. 2004
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Now, as John mentioned in his session, this act has nothing to do with specific selection, it's just that some of the punters will be able to clean up/process/run with the stuff that was presented to us.
Archive 2004-10-01 2004
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Anglo Irish Bank debt holders - namely the punters who, instead of walking into the nearest branch of the bank's subordinated debt - are in for a severe headshave.
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Above the Scottish soil, European "punters" kicked the isle's oddsmakers between their blinkers.
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The bar has been packed with over two hundred "punters" paying a pound a head to listen to big band arrangements by Stan Kenton, Neal Hefti, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Johnnie Dankworth.
Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003
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