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noun

• 1a cleared space on a golf course, from which the ball is struck at the beginning of play for each hole: he smashes the ball off the 15th tee [as modifier]:a tee shot
• a small peg with a concave head which can be placed in the ground to support a golf ball before it is struck from a tee: I carry three tees in my pocket

  [ late 17th century (originally Scots, as teaz): of unknown origin]

• 2a mark aimed at in bowls, quoits, curling, and other similar games.

  [ late 18th century (originally Scots): perhaps the same word as tee¹]

verb (tees, teeing, teed)

• [no object] Golf place the ball on a tee ready to make the first stroke of the round or hole: the two teenagers will be teeing up for Great Britain and Ireland in the Curtis Cup [with object]:Jack teed the ball up
• [with object] place (something) in position, especially to be struck:a wary man tees up the rest of the coconuts