From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbirdiebird‧ie1 /ˈbɜːdi $ ˈbɜːrdi/ noun [countable] 1 spokenHBB a word meaning a little bird, used especially by or to children2 DSGin golf, a score that is one less than par3 American EnglishDSO a small object with feathers that you hit across the net in a game of badminton SYN shuttlecock British English
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birdie• There, Leonard recorded a birdie and Mickelson had a 3-putt bogey.• Woods, sensing blood, hit a fantastic second from 149 yards that almost went in, leaving him a gimme birdie.• It started that great birdie run by Lee.• But Irwin missed his birdie attempt and Morgan tapped in a bogey to win.• But Jacklin was still in a position to make birdie, about 12 feet away.• Do you think he smiled after the birdie?• He had talked Walker into it, and she holed the birdie putt.birdiebirdie2 verb [transitive] DSGin golf, to get the ball into the hole in one hit less than par Woods birdied the last two holes.→ See Verb table 