Caddy

Quick meaning: Caddy is a noun meaning (also attributively) A small box or tin (can) with a lid for holding dried tea leaves used to brew tea.

Meaning

(also attributively) A small box or tin (can) with a lid for holding dried tea leaves used to brew tea.

More Meanings

1. A (usually small) box, chest, or tin with a lid, and often with partitions, used to keep things in.
2. A small lidded bin for food waste.
3. (intransitive, golf) Chiefly followed by for: alternative spelling of caddie (“to serve as a caddy (noun sense) for a golfer”)
4. A movable tray or other mechanism for holding (sometimes within a piece of equipment or machinery), securing, and transporting a removable component.
5. A lightweight wheeled cart; specifically, one attached to a bicycle as a conveyance for a child, or pulled by hand and used to transport groceries away from a shop.
6. (golf, also attributively) Alternative spelling of caddie (“a person hired to assist a golfer by carrying their golf clubs and providing advice”).

Example Sentences

Caddy, pass me my five iron.

Place the disc in the DVD caddy.

I was honored to caddy for Tiger Woods at a charity golf game.

We took turns caddying, one caddying, two playing. We went out across the river to the teeing ground of the first hole.

Word Forms

• caddies
• caddie
• caddying
• caddied

Synonyms for caddy

Depending on context, synonyms include caddie.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cart, carrier, bearer, reservoir, child, deposit.

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