tee

Meanings

Noun

• Something shaped like the letter T.
• T-shirt.
• A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole.
• A usually wooden or plastic peg from which a ball is kicked or hit.
• The target area of a curling rink
• The mark at which players aim in quoits.
• A finial resembling an umbrella, crowning a dagoba in Indochinese countries.

Verb

• To place a ball on a tee

Related

Similar words

• tee up

Origin

• From Middle English, from Old English te, from Latin te.
• First attested in the 17th century as teaz, later reanalyzed as a plural.