putt

plural putts

1. golfThe act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green.

present singular third person putts · participle present putting · participle past putted · past putted

1. golfTo lightly strike a golf ball with a putter.

   There were the golfers. Was it possible that they were going on with their game? Yes, there was a fellow driving off from a tee, and that other group upon the green were surely putting for the hole.

   1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

plural putts

1. onomatopoeicA regular sound characterized by the sound of "putt putt putt putt...", such as made by some slowly stroking internal combustion engines.
2. UKslanghobbiesA motorcycle.

present singular third person putts · participle present putting · participle past putted · past putted

1. To make a putting sound.
2. slanghobbiesTo ride one's motorcycle, to go for a motorcycle ride.
3. To move along slowly.

present singular third person putts · participle present putting

1. obsoleteObsolete form of put.

   We have a custome, that when one sneezes, every one els putts off his hatt, and bowes, and cries God bless ye Sir.

   c. 1691, John Aubrey, Naturall Historie of Wiltshire

plural putts

1. Small cart.