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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: (golf) a score of one stroke under par on a hole
2: badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers [syn: shuttlecock, bird, birdie, shuttle] v
1: shoot in one stroke under par

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Date: 1768 1. a little bird 2. a golf score of one stroke less than par on a hole — compare eagle II. transitive verb (birdied; birdieing) Date: 1948 to score a birdie on

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 colloq. a little bird. 2 Golf a score of one stroke less than par at any hole. --v.tr. (birdies, birdied, birdying) Golf play (a hole) in a birdie.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Birdie Bird"ie, n. A pretty or dear little bird; -- a pet name. --Tennyson.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(birdies, birdying, birdied) 1. In golf, if you get a birdie, you get the golf ball into a hole in one stroke fewer than the number of strokes which has been set as the standard for a good player. N-COUNT 2. If a golfer birdies a hole, he or she gets a birdie at that hole. He birdied five of the first seven holes. VERB: V n

Foolish Dictionary

A term a woman is apt to apply to a man she is playing for a jay.