"skull" citation from Double-Tongued Dictionary

Catchword: skull

Filed under: English, Golf, Sports & Recreation

Part of speech: v.

The part of speech reflects that used in the full entry, and not necessarily the part of speech as it is used in the quotation below.

Quotation: You are no longer playing irony golf, and when you screw up and need to get the irony back to help blunt the frustration of skulling the next shot, you find it’s not that easy.

Author:
Johnny Miller

Article, document, publication, web site:
Breaking 90 with Johnny Miller : The Callaway Golfer

Date of publication:
Oct. 1, 2000

Page number:
26

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