PUT-PUT

/put"put", -put'/ , n. , v. , put-putted, put-putting .

n.

1. the sound made by a small internal-combustion engine or imitative of its operation.

2. Informal. a small internal-combustion engine, or something, as a boat or model airplane, equipped with one: the sound of distant put-puts on the lake.

v.i.

3. Informal. to operate with sounds suggesting a put-put, as a small motor or motor-driven device.

Also, putt-putt .

[ 1900-05; imit. ]