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(pʌtəʳ)
Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense putters, present participle puttering, past tense, past participle puttered
1. countable noun
A putter is a club used for hitting a golf ball a short distance once it is on the green.
2. verb
If you putter around, you do unimportant but quite enjoyable things, without hurrying.
[US]
I started puttering around outside, not knowing what I was doing.
She liked to putter in the kitchen. [VERB]
regional note: in BRIT, use potter

putter in British English 1

(ˈpʌtə)
noun golf
1. 
a club for putting, usually having a solid metal head
2. 
a golfer who putts

putter in British English 2

(ˈpʌtə) US and Canadian
verb
1. (intr; often foll by about or around)
to busy oneself in a desultory though agreeable manner
2. (intr; often foll by along or about)
to move with little energy or direction
to putter about town
3. (transitive; usually foll by away)
to waste (time)
noun
4. 
the act of puttering
Equivalent term (in Britain and certain other countries): potter
Word origin
C16 (in the sense: to poke repeatedly): from Old English potian to thrust; see put

putter in British English 3

(ˈpʊtə)
noun
1. 
a person who puts
the putter of a question
2. 
a person who puts the shot

putter in American English 1

(ˈpʌtər)
verb intransitive
1. 
to busy oneself or proceed in a trifling, ineffective, or aimless way; dawdle
often with over, along, around, etc.
verb transitive
2. 
to dawdle or fritter (something) away
Word origin
var. of potter2

putter in American English 2

(ˈpʌtər)
noun Golf
1. 
a short, straight-faced club used in putting
2. 
a person who putts

putter in American English 3

(ˈpʊtər)
noun
a person or thing that puts

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Examples of 'putter' in a sentence
putter

That's why you see people using the long putter or the claw grip.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
A good putter and team man.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Here he used a belly putter and for three rounds it worked beautifully.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
This is the last major championship at which he can anchor his long putter.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The long putter was a last resort.
The Sun (2013)
He was already on the long putter.
Peter McEvoy For Love or Money (2006)
The belly putter is about funk.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
France remains by far the best country in Europe to putter around in your own machine.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Once a good putter, but now very twitchy under pressure.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Although smaller and less muscular than her rivals, she is actually a decent shot putter.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
But it's all very well being a good putter.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
 GREAT putter and unflappable when the going gets tough.
The Sun (2010)
I lost concentration a little but my putter was great.
The Sun (2008)
I know they've reached out to players who use the short putter.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
He has been finding it so fiendishly difficult that he has switched to the belly putter - the club he once said should be banned.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The putter head should sit reasonably flat on the ground, and this will be affected very much by the length of the putter shaft.
Lewis, Beverly Winning Golf for Women (1993)
On short putts this inward element will not be apparent, and the putter head will go back and through on almost a straight line.
Lewis, Beverly Winning Golf for Women (1993)
When you get to your thirties, you don't normally become a great putter.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
She's fabulous: and a converted shot putter.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
He's renowned as a good putter... but there has been no consistency.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Ultra tough and a great putter but Celtic Manor in the autumn might prove too long for him.
The Sun (2010)
For the record, he used the short putter for the first 14 holes and the belly putter for his final two.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The more the body moves, the more manipulation of the putter head will be needed - and that is the path to inconsistency.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It's known as bowls and suffers from its image as a game you take up when you're too old to lift a golf putter.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Another guy who pairs well with anybody and is a great putter, a man I really trust on and off the course.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)

In other languages
putter

British English: putter NOUN
A putter is a club used for hitting a golf ball a short distance once it is on the green.
  • American English: putter
  • Brazilian Portuguese: putter
  • Chinese: 轻击用的球杆高尔夫球的
  • European Spanish: putter
  • French: putter
  • German: Putter
  • Italian: putter
  • Japanese: パター
  • Korean: 퍼터
  • European Portuguese: taco de golfe
  • Latin American Spanish: putter
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