tee up

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tee up

verb tees up · teeing up · teed up

To place a golf ball on a tee.
To pass the ball to someone, facilitating a shot. This time the defender was teed up by Andrew Johnson's short free-kick on the edge of the box and Baird hammered his low drive beyond Begovic's outstretched left arm and into the bottom corner, doubling his goal tally for the season and stunning the home crowd.
To place the ball on a tee, ready for kickoff.
To give a coach or player a technical foul.
figuratively To prepare; to make ready.

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@misc{tee_up_2026,
  title = {tee up},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tee%20up},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}