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putt-putt

/puht-puht, -puht/US // ˈpʌtˈpʌt, -ˌpʌt //UK // (ˈpʌtˌpʌt) informal //

推土机,推杆,推杆运动,投球

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the sound made by a small internal-combustion engine or imitative of its operation.
    • : Informal. a small internal-combustion engine, or something, as a boat or model airplane, equipped with one: the sound of distant put-puts on the lake.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    put-put·ted, put-put·ting.

    • : Informal. to operate with sounds suggesting a put-put, as a small motor or motor-driven device.

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Examples

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  • Obsessive exercising and inadequate nutrition can, over time, put people at high risk for overuse injuries like stress fractures.

  • When I put their allegations to Epstein, he denied them and went into overdrive.

  • We did ThunderAnt stuff for ourselves and just put it online, and then it blossomed into something else.

  • He was voluble in his declarations that they would “put the screws” to Ollie on the charge of perjury.

  • Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.

  • This is the place where the Muscovite criminals are banished to, if they are not put to death.

  • Let them open their minds to us, let them put upon permanent record the significance of all their intrigues and manœuvres.

  • Before the spinet a bench was placed about four feet below the keys, and I was put upon the bench.