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pitch mark

noun

Definition of pitch mark

golf
: ball mark Not fixing divots or pitch marks is either not knowing the proper etiquette or just being lazy.— Ken Fry, South Bend (Indiana) Tribune, 15 May 2003

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1936, in the meaning defined above

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