Answer to "Golf gaffes" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word SLICES , but the solution may also be SHANKS which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).

Golf gaffes crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
SLICES	50 %	6
SHANKS	50 %	6

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Golf gaffes

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• slice
• bobble
• blooper
• blunder
• boo
• crab
• err
• error
• gaff
• miscue
• renege
• slip

Crossword Answer definitions

SLICES noun

1. That which is thin and broad.
2. A thin, broad piece cut off.
3. An amount of anything.
4. A piece of pizza.
5. A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
6. A broad, thin piece of plaster.
7. A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
8. A salver, platter, or tray.
9. A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
10. One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
11. A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
12. A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
13. Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
14. A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
15. A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
16. A contiguous portion of an array.

SLICES verb

1. To cut into slices.
2. To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
3. To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
4. To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
5. To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
6. To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
7. To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
8. To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result SLICES

• Pizzeria orders
• Octet in many pizza boxes
• Salami servings
• Pizza pieces
• Pizza orders
• Pizzeria portions
• Driving errors
• Breaks bread?
• Cuts for a sandwich
• Examples of bad driving

More clues leading to the result SHANKS

• Punts poorly
• Beef cuts
• Veal cuts
• Areas above hooves
• Ossobuco cuts
• Drives badly
• Beef cut
• Cuts of meat.
• ___ mare.
• ___ mare