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tee up

tee up verb: to place a golf ball on a tee.

Verb

tee up (third-person singular simple present tees up, present participle teeing up, simple past and past participle teed up)

  1. To place a golf ball on a tee.
  2. To pass the ball to someone, facilitating a shot.
    • This time the defender was teed up by Andrew Johnson's short free-kick on the edge of the box and Baird hammered his low drive beyond Begovic's outstretched left arm and into the bottom corner, doubling his goal tally for the season and stunning the home crowd.2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham”, in BBC
  3. To place the ball on a tee, ready for kickoff.
  4. To give a coach or player a technical foul.
  5. (figuratively) To prepare; to make ready.

Forms of tee up

third-person singular presenttees up
present participleteeing up
past participleteed up
pastteed up

Questions about tee up

What does tee up mean?
Tee up means to place a golf ball on a tee.
What part of speech is tee up?
Tee up is a verb.
What is the past tense of tee up?
The past tense of tee up is teed up.

Words near tee up in the dictionary

  1. tee off
  2. tee shirt
  3. tee shirts
  4. tee time
  5. tee times
  6. tee up
  7. tee-ball
  8. tee-balls
  9. tee-box
  10. tee-boxes
  11. tee-hee

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