Definitions for putters

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putters put·ter

Spelling: [puht-er]

IPA: /ˈpʌt ər/

Putters is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 173 anagrams from letters in putters (eprsttu).

Definitions for putters

noun

1. puttering or ineffective action; dawdling.
2. a person who putts.
3. a club with a relatively short, stiff shaft and a wooden or iron head, used in putting.
4. a person or thing that puts.
5. Track. a shot-putter.

Verb phrases

1. putter away, to spend or fill in a random, inconsequential, or unproductive way; fritter away; waste:

verb (used without object)

1. to busy or occupy oneself in a leisurely, casual, or ineffective manner:
2. to move or go in a specified manner with ineffective action or little energy or purpose:
3. to move or go slowly or aimlessly; loiter.

Origin of putters

First recorded in 1875-80; variant of potter²

Examples for putters

"Oh, that's all right," she said carelessly, throwing her putter to the boy.

Her next boy, Ben, worked with his father in the pit, as a putter.

But though I keep it still and treasure it, I have never played with that putter since.

It was only Bill Hagger, the putter, with his corve, or basket of coals.

Dick was now becoming a biggish boy, and he hoped soon to be made a putter.

The devilish thing about you inventors is that you putter so.

Seems's if he loved to putter about 'n' fool with things in a room, like women.

With a photograph of goalkeeper Robert Green on the England team's golf outing, the Sun screamed the headline, " putter FINGERS."

Tiger wears Nike clothing from head to toe, and with the exception of his putter, uses only Nike clubs and balls.

"Durned if you don't look like a man who can handle a horse," said Mr. putter.