Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Ice hockey.
- noun Field hockey.
- noun Street hockey.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Harvest-home; the harvest-supper.
- noun A game of ball played with a club curved at one end. Also called shinny, shinty.
- noun The stick or club used in playing this game. Also called hockey-stick, hockey-club.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals.
- noun The stick used by the players.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun North America
Ice hockey , a game onice in which twoteams of sixplayers skate and try to score by shooting apuck into the opposing team'snet , using theirsticks . - noun
Field hockey , ateam sport played on a pitch on solid ground where players have to hit a ball into a net using ahockey stick . - noun A variation of hockey, such as
roller hockey ,street hockey , orshinny . - noun darts Variation of
oche .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a game resembling ice hockey that is played on an open field; two opposing teams use curved sticks try to drive a ball into the opponents' net
- noun a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled sticks
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Grace grinned and began reciting from memory: “The word hockey comes from a French term meaning ‘bent stick’; there are five face-off zones in a hockey rink, one in each—”
The Life You Longed For Maribeth Fischer 2007
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Grace grinned and began reciting from memory: “The word hockey comes from a French term meaning ‘bent stick’; there are five face-off zones in a hockey rink, one in each—”
The Life You Longed For Maribeth Fischer 2007
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Grace grinned and began reciting from memory: “The word hockey comes from a French term meaning ‘bent stick’; there are five face-off zones in a hockey rink, one in each—”
The Life You Longed For Maribeth Fischer 2007
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Grace grinned and began reciting from memory: “The word hockey comes from a French term meaning ‘bent stick’; there are five face-off zones in a hockey rink, one in each—”
The Life You Longed For Maribeth Fischer 2007
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In fact, fighting in hockey is a way of blowing off steam, and making a statement on behalf of your teammates.
I went to a fight, and... Box Seats blogger 2010
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The worst thing you can do in hockey is to lose in the first round.
Demers: Postseason goalie changes require guts, analysis 2009
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` ` There's a saying that the worst lead in hockey is a two-goal lead, and it proved to be right, '' Stillman said.
USATODAY.com 2007
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The money in hockey is not the same as the money in baseball.
joy of canada 2005
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Obviously, business people and investors snicker when they even hear the term hockey stick graph, having seen too many in dot.com promotions.
McKitrick: What the Hockey Stick Debate is About? « Climate Audit 2005
bilby commented on the word hockey
"Drunk with strong stale beer, called old hock."
- Francis Grose, 'The Vulgar Tongue'.
September 8, 2008
vanishedone commented on the word hockey
I'm relieved to see that hockey resembles ice hockey.
September 29, 2008