tee up
phrasal 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.
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Harrison Butker accidentally teed up quite the gag for play-by-play announcer Rich Eisen.
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Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Setting aside the brewing shutdown brawl, allowing the subsidies to go by the way side could also be politically untenable for certain vulnerable Republicans and tee up voter backlash in next year’s midterms.
—Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
That tees up four months of complex policy talks to satisfy US national security concerns while avoiding disruptions to supply chains that underpin the global electronics market.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025
The latest data tees up an August jobs report that, when released Friday morning, is expected to show another month of tepid job gains.
—Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
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Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Setting aside the brewing shutdown brawl, allowing the subsidies to go by the way side could also be politically untenable for certain vulnerable Republicans and tee up voter backlash in next year’s midterms.
—Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
That tees up four months of complex policy talks to satisfy US national security concerns while avoiding disruptions to supply chains that underpin the global electronics market.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025
The latest data tees up an August jobs report that, when released Friday morning, is expected to show another month of tepid job gains.
—Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
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“Tee up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tee%20up. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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