birdie

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noun

bird·​ie ˈbər-dē 

plural birdies

1

: a little bird

2

: a golf score of one stroke less than par on a hole compare eagle entry 1

3

: shuttlecock

In Asia, badminton is an obsession … . In one preliminary match in Malaysia, 21,000 people came out to watch the speeding birdie.

—Jennifer Boeth

birdie

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verb

birdied; birdieing

transitive verb

: to score a birdie on

Examples of birdie in a Sentence

Noun

I made a birdie on the fifth hole.

I made birdie on the fifth hole.

Verb

She birdied the second hole.

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

Crowe faced a 55-foot birdie putt on the par-3 17th hole when play was to resume Saturday morning at Omni Barton Creek. — ABC News, 13 Nov. 2026

The boys individual champ was South Fork’s Gatlin Albright, who placed his approach shot on 18 about 3 feet from the hole, and drained the easy birdie to win by one stroke. — Steve Gorches, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2026

Verb

Smotherman failed to birdie the par-5 17th, and that was OK with him. — ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026

Graham birdied the last two holes to earn a precious halve against 17-year-old Miles Russell. — Arkansas Online, 7 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

Noun

1768, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb

1921, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for birdie

• gurdy
• purdy
• sturdy
• thirty
• wordy