Meaning of midget golf | Babel Free

Definitions

Miniature golf.

dated, uncountable

Examples

“Midget golf has reduced golf's perspective to half an acre, and what was lately a social privilege turns out to be a Rube Goldberg whimsy.”

“"Midget" golf, a national passion 25 years ago, has been making an unspectacular but steady comeback.”

“I was a fad that year — the way midget golf was once a fad, or flagpole sitting.”

“This garden-turned-golf-course, named Thistle Dhu, was not only the first midget golf course to contain⟳ all the pleasurable elements of the real game, but may have⟳ also been the reason⟳ early miniature golf was referred to as garden golf.”

“The first miniature golf course was laid out on the summit of Lookout Mountain. It was an 18-hole course complete⟳ with doglegs, sand traps and water hazards and was the brainchild of hotelier John Garnet Carter, who patented the name⟳ Tom Thumb, the name⟳ of a midget golf system.”

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