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midget golf

midget golf noun: miniature golf.

Noun

midget golf (uncountable)

  1. (dated) Miniature golf.
    • Midget golf has reduced golf's perspective to half an acre, and what was lately a social privilege turns out to be a Rube Goldberg whimsy.1930 May, Earl Sparling, “The Midget Golf Revolution”, in Vanity Fair, volume 34, number 4, page 70
    • "Midget" golf, a national passion 25 years ago, has been making an unspectacular but steady comeback.1956 June, “Some people make money from golf”, in Kiplinger's Personal Finance, volume 10, number 6, page 17

Examples of midget golf in a sentence

  • I was a fad that year — the way midget golf was once a fad, or flagpole sitting.1963 December 6, Brenda Frazier, “I Was a Fad -- like Midge Golf”, in LIFE, volume 55, number 23:
  • It was an 18-hole course complete with doglegs, sand traps and water hazards and was the brainchild of hotelier John Garnet Carter, who patented the name Tom Thumb, the name of a midget golf system.2010, Paul Donnelley, Firsts, Lasts & Onlys of Golf, →ISBN:

Questions about midget golf

What does midget golf mean?
Midget golf means miniature golf.
How do you use midget golf in a sentence?
I was a fad that year — the way midget golf was once a fad, or flagpole sitting.
What part of speech is midget golf?
Midget golf is a noun.

Words near midget golf in the dictionary

  1. midget
  2. midget car
  3. midget cars
  4. midget cell
  5. midget cells
  6. midget golf
  7. midget submarine
  8. midget submarines
  9. midget tossing
  10. midget-esque
  11. midget-minded

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