tee Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the starting place for each hole on a golf course
    teeing ground.
    • they were waiting on the first tee
  2. noun support holding a football on end and above the ground preparatory to the kickoff
    football tee.
  3. noun a short peg put into the ground to hold a golf ball off the ground
    golf tee.
  4. verb place on a tee
    tee up.
    • tee golf balls
  5. verb connect with a tee
    • tee two pipes

WordNet

Tee noun
Etymology
Cf. Icel. tja to show, mark.
Definitions
  1. The mark aimed at in curling and in quoits.
  2. The nodule of earth or short peg stuck into the ground from which the ball is struck in golf.
Tee noun
Definitions
  1. A short piece of pipe having a lateral outlet, used to connect a line of pipe with a pipe at a right angle with the line; -- so called because it resembles the letter T in shape.

Webster 1913