🏌️ Start area 👕 A T-shirt ⛳ A ball stand ⛳ To place for hitting 🔧 To join pipes

to tee

8.6

To connect a new pipe to an existing one with a T fitting

verb
/tiː/

Specialized

: hacer una derivación en T

Then I'll elbow and come around this way and tee in right here.

Examples

Look, we're just teeing this up for Homeland.

Terminator Genisys (2015)
Hurricane Sandy is teeing up to have possible major impacts along the U.S. Atlantic coast.

Blog text (24)
And, obviously and especially—yes, in the mosque where women are not allowed to enter, and the golf course where women are not allowed to tee off.

Blog text (15)
To connect the two pipes, you need to tee them together using a fitting.
The plumber will tee the new line into the existing plumbing system.
They decided to tee the drainage pipes to ensure proper water flow.

Phrasal Verbs

to tee off

10 5.1

To hit a golf ball from a small peg at the start of a hole

to tee up

Informal

3 5.2

To get something ready for the next step

to tee up

1 6.0

To put a golf ball on a tee before hitting it

Compounds

tee shirt

7 1.0

A casual shirt with short sleeves that fits close to the body

golf tee

1 2.2

A short peg in the ground that holds a golf ball for the first shot on each hole

football tee

2.3

A small stand that holds a football upright for a kick

tee hinge

Specialized

8.5

A metal T shaped plate that joins a door or gate to its frame and lets it open

wind tee

Specialized

7.7

A T-shaped post at an airfield that shows wind direction to pilots

How Complex

valve

Specialized

153 4.1

to tee

Specialized

8.6

coupling

Specialized

25 5.3

pipe fitting

Specialized

1 3.6

elbow

Specialized

30 3.3

plug

50 1.5

Surface Forms

tee infinitive

teed past

teed past participle

teeing present participle

tees third person singular

Etymology

Tee in plumbing comes from the letter T because the pipe fitting looks like a T, with a branch joining the main line. So to tee a pipe is to add another pipe at a right angle like the top of a T.