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noun a poor golf stroke in which the club head hits the ground before hitting the ball
verb strike (a golf ball) such that the ground is scraped first
verb strike (the ground) in making a sclaff
originBorrowed from Scots sclaff (“to slap, shuffle”), of onomatopoeic origin.
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