flat sticks

Noun

flat stick (plural flat sticks)

1. A golf club intended for putting; a putter.
   • As I walked (it was time for a break) off the fourteenth green, it hit me what I'd just done: I'd just birdied five holes in a row while running—without a putter. I've never birdied those holes consecutively before or since that moment, and I've played them dozens of times with my trusty flatstick...2007, Christopher Smith, I've Got 99 Swing Thoughts but "Hit the Ball" Ain't One, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 21
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see flat, stick.
   • Flat sticks are very uncommon in nature—in fact, tree branches usually tend to be rather round.

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