water hazard

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   hazard provided by ponds of water that the golfer must avoid

   Broaderhazard

Questions about water hazard

What does water hazard mean?

water hazard means "hazard provided by ponds of water that the golfer must avoid".

Is water hazard a common word?

water hazard is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.