birdie

birdie
/berr"dee/, n., v., birdied, birdieing.
n.
1. a small bird.
2. Golf. a score of one stroke under par on a hole.
3. a shuttlecock.
v.t.
4. Golf. to make a birdie on (a hole).
[1785-95; BIRD + -IE]

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