from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun A light golf stroke made on the putting green in an effort to place the ball into the hole.
intransitive verb To hit (a golf ball) with a light stroke on the green.
intransitive verb To putt a golf ball.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun See put.
In golf-playing, to play with a putter; play when the ball lies at a short distance from the hole.
noun In golf-playing, a stroke made with a putter, or made in attempting to hole a ball.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
intransitive verb (Golf) To make a putt.
noun (Golf) A stroke made on the putting green to play the ball into a hole.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun golf The act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green.
verb golf To lightly strike a golf ball with a putter on (or very near) a putting green.
noun onomatopoeia A regular sound characterized by the sound of "putt putt putt putt...", such as made by some slowly stroking internal combustion engines.
noun UK, motorcycling, slang A motorcycle.
verb To make a putt sound.
verb motorcycling, slang To ride one's motorcycle, to go for a motorcycle ride.
verb To move along slowly.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
verb strike (a golf ball) lightly, with a putter
verb hit a putt
noun hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Variant of put.]
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Onomatopoeic, from putt-putt
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Examples
Dineen has a small engine, which he calls a putt-putt, that he rides the rails on.
Slocum, who won the opening playoff event last year against a cast of stars, ran off three birdies in four holes around the turn to reach 15 under until a three-putt from the fringe below a steep ridge on the 13th changed everything.
He had three birdies on the front side, made an 18-foot eagle putt from the fringe at the par-5 12th hole to get to 16 under, then took a one-shot lead over Hjertstedt and Rollins with a birdie on the next hole.
vendingmachine commented on the word putt
The putt is generally associated as an alarm and usually means a turkey has seen or heard something and is signaling danger.
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March 15, 2015