golf

Fetched 2026-10-26 (cache).

Datamuse reports no synonyms or antonyms for this word.

Noun

1. {{senseid|en|Q5377}}{{lb|en|sports}} A [[ball game]] played by individuals competing against one another in which the object is to hit a ball into each of a series of (usually 18 or nine) holes in the minimum number of [[stroke]]s.
2. {{senseid|en|Q9739}} {{lb|en|international standards}} {{alt case|mul|Golf}} {{ng|from the {{w|NATO Phonetic Alphabet|NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet}}.}}

Verb

1. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To play the game of golf.
2. {{lb|en|computing}} To write something in as few characters as possible (e.g. in [[code golf]], [[regex golf]])

Source: Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wiktionary dump) · cached copy, not a rewrite.