0 to do things in a relaxed way, without rushing or trying very hard:
1 If a machine or engine putters, it makes a low sound repeatedly, showing that it is working slowly.
2 a golf club (= stick for hitting a golf ball) with a short handle and metal end that is specially designed for putting
He's a good putter.
3 a slow, relaxed walk around a place
4 to move around without hurrying and in a relaxed and pleasant way:
In brief, one putters around, knowing that one will have to start all over again if things do not work out.
They were represented as mere spouters and chatterboxes, the putters of awkward questions and the raisers of small points of procedure.
I always thought that if you could keep the putter all right you had no fear of a stoppage in a pit.
To borrow a corny analogy, he is using a rate of interest putter but in the context of having previously used a fiscal policy driver.
Men and women may be, and are, wage earners, price raisers, price payers, capital in-putters, consumers and the rest.
I told them a driver, a brassie, a niblick, a mashie and a putter.
This manager said that the most difficult persons he had to deal with were the putters.
After all, it is the consistently good putter who sinks the putts, and it is the skilful bridge player who seems to hold all the cards all the time.