# Is "cunt punt" a new expression?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cunt-punt-a-new-expression/656782
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [April 26, 2013, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cunt-punt-a-new-expression/656782 "2013-04-26T18:35:25Z")
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### Author:  [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2013, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cunt-punt-a-new-expression/656782/1 "2013-04-26T18:35:25Z")
A blistering e-mail written by a sororoty committee member sent to her sorority sisters has been making the rounds on-line recently (the text, and a dramatic reading of it, is here on YouTube),
[http://youtu.be/6wH5WvWB7m0](http://youtu.be/6wH5WvWB7m0)
This part of the letter interests me. The writer is engagingly florid in her wrath, and is a great curser (hence, partly, her brief fame).
A “matchup,” as I learned from this letter, is when a girls group meets with a frat house. It’s a big deal and takes planning. So:
Well it’s time someone told you, NO ONE FUCKING LIKES THAT, ESPECIALLY OUR FUCKING MATCHUP. I will fucking cunt punt the next person I hear about doing something like that, and I don’t give a fuck if you SOR me, I WILL FUCKING ASSAULT YOU
Caps original.
She also says “cock block,” an expression different in meaning but exactly similar in style.
1. Did she invent “cunt punt?” I doubt it, but if she did she deserved a prize.
2. What does “SOR” mean?
3. Since I mentioned it, when did “cock block” enter the lexicon? I first heard it in the movie, Superbad from a few years ago.
It’s funny that I’m now such an alte kocker that I don’t understand slang.
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### Author:  [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2013, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cunt-punt-a-new-expression/656782/2 "2013-04-26T18:40:58Z")
I never heard it before I read that either. I am guessing it may be a popular phrase amongst the young folk when they want to be particularly expressive. Or, the young author may just have a natural gift for creating remarkably vivid rhymes.
ETA: I’m fairly certain “cock block” is much older. I think I first heard it in college which was a couple decades ago.
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### Author:  [@Arkcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arkcon)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2013, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cunt-punt-a-new-expression/656782/3 "2013-04-26T18:42:00Z")
Cunt Punt has been an internet meme for quite some time now, if you Google “cunt punt meme” you’ll see them, although I can’t prove the date of inception. It wouldn’t surprise me if it was much older, given that it rhymes, and … well … you can get the feeling that some people need a punt for their behavior, and some of those people happen to have a cunt instead of a set of family jewels. The concept of women as fragile little flowers is long past dead. I’m guessing cunt punt didn’t start in Victorian era, but what do I know of history?
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### Author:  [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2013, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cunt-punt-a-new-expression/656782/4 "2013-04-26T18:53:53Z")
Urban dictionary has a cite for that phrase from 2005.
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### Author:  [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2013, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cunt-punt-a-new-expression/656782/5 "2013-04-26T18:55:12Z")
I never heard of it before this chick’s rant.
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### Author:  [@listedmia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/listedmia)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2013, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cunt-punt-a-new-expression/656782/6 "2013-04-26T18:57:13Z")
I have been hearing “cunt **punch** ” more often in real life than “punt” lately. Not as a literal term, more of a facetious expression of anger directed at a woman, usually by another female: “I am going to cunt punch whatever bitch took my Cheez-its!”
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### Author:  [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2013, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cunt-punt-a-new-expression/656782/7 "2013-04-26T19:03:33Z")
I’m still mystified by the “SOR” thing, myself.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2013, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cunt-punt-a-new-expression/656782/8 "2013-04-26T19:04:57Z")
Perhaps “Standing Order of Restraint?”
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### Author:  [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2013, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cunt-punt-a-new-expression/656782/9 "2013-04-26T19:07:20Z")
I used ‘cunt punt’ in high school in 1995. It went out of fashion for a while but I’ve been hearing it on and off for the last five years or so.
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2013, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cunt-punt-a-new-expression/656782/10 "2013-04-26T19:12:27Z")
Maybe SOR = Sex Offender Registration?
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### Author:  [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2013, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cunt-punt-a-new-expression/656782/11 "2013-04-26T19:12:47Z")
I took it as “Statement of Reason”, where a sister fills out a SOR form to request that this person be removed from office or removed from the sorority. But that’s just a guess.
And yea, Cunt Punt has been around a while. It’s different than Cock Block, though. Cock Block is where you ruin/prevent a potential hook up. Cunt Punt is simply kicking a girl in the vulva!
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### Author:  [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2013, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cunt-punt-a-new-expression/656782/12 "2013-04-26T19:16:30Z")
Urban dictionary has “sor” as a half-felt apology, and that’s my best guess.
You tear someone a new one for not going to Sigma Nu, they flippantly say “Oh, like, sor…” and so you fucking assault them.
The other hypothesis I have, not as likely IMO, is Sexual Offender Registry (from acronyms/freedictionary ). I don’t care if you report me for being a sexual predator, I will fucking assault you.
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### Author:  [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2013, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cunt-punt-a-new-expression/656782/13 "2013-04-26T19:43:12Z")
I heard it back in 2003 or 2004; I think it was in reference to one of the fight scenes in _Kill Bill_.
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2013, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cunt-punt-a-new-expression/656782/14 "2013-04-26T19:50:52Z")
I’m still going with SOR meaning Student Organization Representative. “To SOR someone” is to report them to the Student Organization Rep, the liason between the college and the group.
[http://www.sandiego.edu/documents/slic/SORJobDescription.pdf](http://www.sandiego.edu/documents/slic/SORJobDescription.pdf) (as SOR) (pdf file)
[http://www.depts.ttu.edu/sga/SORC.php](http://www.depts.ttu.edu/sga/SORC.php) (As SORC)
[http://udancedelaware.org/files/RSOletter.pdf](http://udancedelaware.org/files/RSOletter.pdf) (as RSO) (pdf file)
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### Author:  [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2013, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cunt-punt-a-new-expression/656782/15 "2013-04-27T01:37:29Z")
I was poking around YouTube responses and in one “serious” response by a college kid she facetiously applauded the emailer for inventing “cunt punt,” so the loop is not _that_ wide.
That the emailer told the girls not to “cock block,” in relationship to their own sexual opportunities, I never heard, but am not that surprised given that I’ve seen/heard the dismissive “blow me” be used by a woman–a sign of the semantic niche that expression uniquely occupies, and why it was appropriated by women despite its obvious lack of more literal sense.
To call the whole bunch of girls facing her wrath “cocks” surprised me. In a similar situation a man will denigrate some one as a cunt, or a bunch of cunts or pussies, little bitches, etc., but demeaning a man by likening him to a woman or a female body part is well known to be particularly vicious. (“Goodnight ladies” was the Drill Instructors nightly goodbye to his Marine recruits in _Full Metal Jacket_.)
Anyone ever heard a woman put down another by calling her a cock?
ETA: I found this amusing multi-actor reading of the email:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IKdacITc-E)
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### Author:  [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2013, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cunt-punt-a-new-expression/656782/16 "2013-04-27T01:48:47Z")
Get a new plan, Stan
No need to be coy, Roy
Just drop off the cunt, Punt
and listen to me . . .
. . . I admit, it’s got a ring to it.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2013, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cunt-punt-a-new-expression/656782/17 "2013-04-27T02:28:51Z")
> [@EmAnJ](#):
>
> I used ‘cunt punt’ in high school in 1995. It went out of fashion for a while but I’ve been hearing it on and off for the last five years or so.
In the sorority thread, I said it was at least early 2000s, but mid-90s (when I was in college), sounds like it could be right, too. There is also the related phrase, already mentioned, “cunt punch.” I have no written records to prove this, memory is not an entirely reliable thing, but this was certainly not the first time I heard “cunt punt,” and my guess is early 2000s at the latest, probably more like mid-to-late 90s the first time I heard it.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2013, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cunt-punt-a-new-expression/656782/18 "2013-04-27T02:35:23Z")
Here’s a usenet cite from [2008](https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!search/%22cunt$20punt%22%7Csort:date/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/wvavisaFdOU/zG9lDkJkdU8J):
> [@](#):
>
> For God’s sake, someone please cunt punt this bitch and give the
> \>\> rightful nomination to Obama.
Here’s someone using the phrase in [2001](https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!search/%22cunt$20punt%22%7Csort:date/alt.drugs.psychedelics/RiJKO9C-D_s/Datp1WWsHIAJ), but in a joking manner that makes me think s/he was just making it up:
> [@](#):
>
> my sister for example had very violent thoughts the three times she tried
> \>LSD - she wanted to bash her friends heads off of the wall, not normal
> \>thoughts for her (usually she just kicks them in the cunt, j/k). So she
> \>didn’t do it again.
> \>
> \>
> Is that a cunt punt?
There’s also a poem from 1998 which has “cunt punt” in it, but it’s clearly meant to be wordplay, not referencing current slang.
The Google Groups usenet search doesn’t seem to work the same way it once did, so I’m finding it difficult to find a definitive cite. I’ll have to see if there’s a better search engine for this.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2013, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cunt-punt-a-new-expression/656782/19 "2013-04-27T02:44:09Z")
Actually, Urban Dictionary has a definition as far back as [2003](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cuntpunt&defid=118471), if you spell it as “cuntpunt.” ETA: And [cunt-punt](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cunt-punt) has two definitions from 2005 and one from 2003, so early 2000s seems like a reasonable guess.
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### Author:  [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2013, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cunt-punt-a-new-expression/656782/20 "2013-04-27T02:50:16Z")
I distinctly recall a female friend of mine in high school using the term on more than one occasion back in 1998, with the meaning being basically a female version of “to/a kick in the balls”.
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