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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Deommodore Lenoir’s pass-interference penalty against Smith-Njigba in the end zone teed up the Seahawks for first-and-goal from the 1, but then came a Bethune sack and then solid tackles on Charbonnet runs by Jordan Elliott, Keion White and Brown.
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Cam Inman, Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2026
Run Away Netflix has teed up its next Harlan Coben adaptation for a New Year’s Day release.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 29 Dec. 2025
Chief among them is that four Republicans signed on to a Democratic discharge petition that tees up a vote on a plan that would extend the subsidies for three years.
—Al Weaver, The Hill, 21 Dec. 2025
As previous films in the Multiverse Saga have teased, the MCU is teeing up for a big collision of parallel universes in Avengers 5 and 6.
—Kelsie Gibson, PEOPLE, 20 Dec. 2025
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Cam Inman, Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2026
Run Away Netflix has teed up its next Harlan Coben adaptation for a New Year’s Day release.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 29 Dec. 2025
Chief among them is that four Republicans signed on to a Democratic discharge petition that tees up a vote on a plan that would extend the subsidies for three years.
—Al Weaver, The Hill, 21 Dec. 2025
As previous films in the Multiverse Saga have teased, the MCU is teeing up for a big collision of parallel universes in Avengers 5 and 6.
—Kelsie Gibson, PEOPLE, 20 Dec. 2025
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“Tee up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tee%20up. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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