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golfed

golfed is the simple past and past participle of golf.

Meaning of golf

Verb

golf (third-person singular simple present golfs, present participle golfing, simple past and past participle golfed)

  1. (intransitive) To play the game of golf.
    • Last mystery of all, he learned to golf.1894, Rudyard Kipling, The Day's Work/An Error in the Fourth Dimension
  2. To write something in as few characters as possible (e.g. in code golf, regex golf)

See all 3 meanings of golf

Adjective

golfed (not comparable)

  1. Having had its source code made as short as possible, as in code golf.
    • One of the best optimizations of Perl programs is trimming the number of operations it has to perform. The less work it has to do, the better. This isn't an argument for obfuscated or golfed code—just good profiling […]2006, Chromatic, Damian Conway, Curtis Poe, Perl Hacks: Tips & Tools for Programming, Debugging, and Surviving

Words formed from golfed

Questions about golfed

What does golfed mean?
Golfed means having had its source code made as short as possible, as in code golf.
What is golfed the simple past and past participle of?
Golfed is the simple past and past participle of golf.
What part of speech is golfed?
Golfed is an adjective.

Words near golfed in the dictionary

  1. golfaholic
  2. golfaholics
  3. golfball
  4. golfballs
  5. golfdom
  6. golfed
  7. golfer
  8. golfer's elbow
  9. golfer's elbows
  10. golfer's vasculitis
  11. golfers

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