eagles

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of eagle.

   Golden eagles hunt across the open hillsides at dawn.

   Conservationists released three young eagles back into the wild.

   Note

   A regular plural that carries every meaning of the singular. It covers the hook-billed birds of the family Accipitridae, the ten-dollar gold coins of United States history, golf scores two under par, and Eagle Scouts. Context does the sorting, so a coin collector's eagles and a golfer's eagles are different things. The same spelling also serves as the golfing verb: "three eagles" is a noun, while "she eagles" is a verb.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present indicative of eagle.

   Whenever she finds the green in two, she eagles the hole.

   The veteran golfer eagles the eighteenth and storms up the leaderboard.

   Note

   Golf's verb for finishing a hole two strokes under par. Of all the noun's meanings, only the scoring one has become a verb. The birds, the coins and the scouts have no verb of their own. It usually takes the hole as its direct object: she eagles the fifth, he eagles the eighteenth. The hole can also be left unstated once the context of the round is clear.

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