tee up

verb

teed up; teeing up; tees up

golf

: to place (a ball) on a tee

It's time to tee up.

He teed the ball up.

Examples of tee up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Thune took steps to tee up votes on a number of the priorities earlier this week. — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026

The vote came after Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment rights to avoid answering questions at a recent hearing, teeing up a potential request for the Justice Department to look into criminal charges. — Aysha Bagchi, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2026

Any board that tees up a new ED for this is setting that ED up for failure. — Patrick Riccards, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026

Some banks, including Deutsche Bank AG, Wells Fargo and CIBC Capital Markets, do see the Treasury tweaking Wednesday’s guidance in order to tee up an earlier shift to larger coupon sales. — Greg Ritchie, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for tee up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup