: a golf stroke made on a putting green to cause the ball to roll into or near the hole
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Near those boundaries, microscopic changes in pace or line flip the result, explaining why near-identical putts can alternate between agony and ecstasy.—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025 And the resulting 35-yard field goal try — a six-inch gimmie putt in the modern NFL — wobbles wide right.—Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025 This necessitated a one-hole playoff, which Morrow won after sinking a par putt to give Xaverian the individual state champion as well.—Jack Murray, Boston Herald, 21 Oct. 2025 This isn’t like missing a 2-foot putt, or getting posterized, or letting a groundball squeak through your legs or blowing a tire on the ice.—Zak Keefer, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for putt
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Scots, literally, shove, gentle push, from putt, put to put
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