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noun
The act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: golf, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
A regular sound characterized by the sound of "putt putt putt putt...", such as made by some slowly stroking internal combustion engines.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: onomatopoeic
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noun
A motorcycle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, slang
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, motorcycling
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noun
Small cart.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To lightly strike a golf ball with a putter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: golf, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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verb
To make a putting sound.
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verb
To ride one's motorcycle, to go for a motorcycle ride.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, motorcycling
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verb
To move along slowly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
Obsolete form of put.
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Usage: alt-of, obsolete
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noun
hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: putting
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Broader terms: golf stroke, golf shot, swing
verb
strike (a golf ball) lightly, with a putter
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: hit
verb
hit a putt
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: play
History
Borrowed from Scots putt (“to put”). Compare Middle Dutch putten (“to dig a pit”). The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid. In Dutch, the word is instanced in a description of golf in an early seventeenth-century edition of Pieter van Afferden's Tyrocinium linguae latinae. All derive from Proto-Germanic *putōną.
Onomatopoeic, from putt-putt.
Probable variant of pot (“vessel”) or butt (“cask”).
Across languages
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
