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noun Golf.

green (def. 24).

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Origin of putting green

First recorded in 1840–50

Words nearby putting green

put the skids under, put through, put through the wringer, puttie, puttier, putting green, Putti-Platt operation, Puttnam, putto, put to bed, put to death

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How to use putting green in a sentence

Mining them, he says, would be as simple as vacuuming golf balls off a putting green.
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If you yearn for that feeling, motion controls scratch that itch, especially after a year plus when the putting green was not so easily accessible.
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In their past calls for attacks on Western targets, AQAP has focused on putting bombs on planes, not revenge attacks.
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I really wanted Trenchmouth to succeed and at the time wished we were as big as Green Day.
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It’s cool because Trenchmouth opened for Green Day in the early ‘90s in Wisconsin.
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I just did one [Geezer] with Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day.
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In one of the activities men practiced putting the dolls gingerly on their backs to carry them.
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With the dispersal of the spores the cone shrivels up, and then the stems starts to send out green branches.
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The plant as a whole remains green until late in the autumn.
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A few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.
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Not suspecting her motive, he represented the hazard of putting so great an affront on the favourite of the Empress.
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I could see only the stretch of green before me, and I felt as if I must walk on forever, without coming to the end of it.
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British Dictionary definitions for putting green

putting green

/ (ˈpʌtɪŋ) /

noun

(on a golf course) the area of closely mown grass at the end of a fairway where the hole is

an area of smooth grass with several holes for putting games

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