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References External links 0–9 19th hole The clubhouse bar. A ace When a player hits the ball directly from the tee into the hole with one stroke. Also called a hole in one. address The act of taking a stance and placing the club-head behind the golf ball. If the ball moves once a player has addressed the ball, there is a one-stroke penalty, unless it is clear that the actions of the player ...
Chip (golf), a golf shot also known as half-swing; Chip (association football), an association football shot also known as a lob; Chip shot (gridiron football), a short field goal attempt in gridiron football; Chip (curling), a takeout shot striking a rock at an angle; Chip shot (idiom), a phrase denoting that an attempted action has a low ...
Davie Grant is stymied on the 17th green at North Berwick, Scotland, and is attempting to chip his ball over the ball that is blocking the hole (c. 1888). A stymie was a situation in greens play in golf where one player's ball blocked the path of another's to the cup, governed by a now obsolete rule of golf. Formerly, the blocked player was not ...
Maskot/Getty Images. 6. Delulu. Short for ‘delusional,’ this word is all about living in a world of pure imagination (and only slightly detached from reality).
Golf: Typical; what is expected. Derived from the literal meaning of par for the course in golf. [57] Political football Association football: an issue in politics that is continually debated but is yet to be resolved. [58] pull one's punches Boxing: To use less force than one is capable of; to be gentle or lenient. In boxing, a boxer who holds ...
Detroit slang is an ever-evolving dictionary of words and phrases with roots in regional Michigan, the Motown music scene, African-American communities and drug culture, among others. The local ...
And it's not just a variation on American slang, either: the local lingo in St. Louis takes time to get your head around. So here's a run-down of St. Louis' local language and its most common ...
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