golf
see also: Golf, GOLF
Noun
Golf
Pronunciation
GOLF
Noun
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see also: Golf, GOLF
Noun
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The word is first known in English from the 17th century as a borrowing from gmw-msc golf, gouff.
Pronunciation Noungolf (uncountable)
- (sports) A ball game played by individuals competing against one another in which the object is to hit a ball into each of a series of (usually 18 or nine) holes in the minimum number of strokes.
- (international standards)
golf (golfs, present participle golfing; simple past and past participle golfed)
- (intransitive) To play the game of golf.
- 1894, Rudyard Kipling, The Day's Work/An Error in the Fourth Dimension:
- Last mystery of all, he learned to golf.
- (computing) To write something in as few characters as possible (e.g. in code golf, regex golf)
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- IPA: [ˈɡɔlf]
- (international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the letter G.
- (nautical) Signal flag for the letter G.
- (time zone) UTC+07:00
GOLF
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