1. (golf) a score of one stroke under par on a hole
   "She made a birdie on the par-4 seventh hole"
    
2. Badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers
   "The players volleyed the birdie back and forth over the net";
   - shuttlecock, bird, shuttle
    
3. [informal] Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
   "a pretty little birdie";
   - bird

1. (golf) to score a birdie
   "She birdied the par-4 hole"

Derived forms: birdied, birdies, birdying

Type of: badminton equipment, craniate, score, shoot, vertebrate

Part of: Aves, class Aves, flock

Encyclopedia: Birdie, Mississippi