Definitions for tee
tee
tee
Spelling: [tee]
IPA: /ti/
Tee is a 3 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 3 points.
You can make 9 anagrams from letters in tee (eet).
Definitions for tee
noun
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the letter T or t.
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something shaped like a T , as a three-way joint used in fitting pipes together.
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T-bar.
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T-shirt.
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the mark aimed at in various games, as curling.
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Golf.
Also called teeing ground. the starting place, usually a hard mound of earth, at the beginning of play for each hole.
a small wooden, plastic, metal, or rubber peg from which the ball is driven, as in teeing off.
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Football. a device on which the ball may be placed to raise it off the ground preparatory to kicking.
Idioms
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to a tee. T, t (def 6).
adjective
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having a crosspiece at the top; shaped like a T .
Verb phrases
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tee off,
Golf. to strike the ball from a tee.
Slang. to reprimand severely; scold:
Informal. to begin:
Baseball, Softball. to make many runs and hits, especially extra-base hits:
Baseball, Softball. to hit (a pitched ball) hard and far:
Boxing. to strike with a powerful blow, especially to the head:
Slang. to make angry, irritated, or disgusted:
verb (used with object)
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Golf. to place (the ball) on a tee.
Origin of tee
spelling form of the letter name
Examples for tee
Watts does a good, blushing sideways glance and has her flat upper class intonations off to a tee.
This is the merry Golf Lynx, as you see; An amiable beast, and fond of tee.
By that time, his arms were so tired from three full swings a hole that he could hardly knock the ball off the tee.
"Let's sit in that car down by the first tee," Harold suggested.
There was a group of people, players and guests, awaiting me at the tee.
She smirks from the side of coffee mugs, tee shirts, post cards, and books around the world.
On the short seventeenth, his tee shot stopped six feet from the pin.
At the eighteenth tee we were all square and hardly on speaking terms.
They are usually solid cones, topped with a gilded 'tee,' and there are many of them.
The kids had a gift for him too, a tee shirt with ‘Baseball Spoken Here’ stenciled across the front.