MATCH PLAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does match play mean? 

• MATCH PLAY (noun)
  The noun MATCH PLAY has 1 sense:

1. golf scoring by holes won

  Familiarity information: MATCH PLAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MATCH PLAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Golf scoring by holes won

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("match play" is a kind of...):

golf; golf game (a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes)