Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Ice hockey.
- n. Field hockey.
- n. Street hockey.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A game of ball played with a club curved at one end. Also called shinny, shinty. It is played (in the northern United States, commonly in winter on ice) by a number of persons divided into two parties or sides, the object of each side being to drive the ball or block with the curved end of the club into that part of the field marked off as the opponent’ goal.
- n. The stick or club used in playing this game. Also called hockey-stick, hockey-club.
- n. Harvest-home; the harvest-supper.
Wiktionary
- n. North America Ice hockey, a game on ice in which two teams of six players skate and try to score by shooting a puck into the opposing team's net, using their sticks.
- n. Field hockey, a team sport played on a pitch on solid ground where players have to hit a ball into a net using a hockey stick.
- n. A variation of hockey, such as roller hockey, street hockey, or shinny.
- n. darts Variation of oche.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. 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.
- n. The stick used by the players.
WordNet 3.0
- n. 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
- n. 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
- Unknown origin, 16th century, possibly related to hook due to the curvature of the stick. (Wiktionary)
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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“The worst thing you can do in hockey is to lose in the first round.”
“` ` There's a saying that the worst lead in hockey is a two-goal lead, and it proved to be right, '' Stillman said.”
“The money in hockey is not the same as the money in baseball.”
“Obviously, business people and investors snicker when they even hear the term hockey stick graph, having seen too many in dot.com promotions.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hockey’.
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Hockey
As the playoffs are on, some Hockey terms, and likely some Canadianisms in here.
face off, playoff beard, playoff, faceoff, bodycheck, hipcheck, icing, pass, facemask, stick, puck, Peter Puck and 182 more...
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EN - pseudo-English words
English words used by foreigners in a different sense than they would be used by native speakers + madeupical "English" words that sound English but are not recognized as such by native speakers of...
top, spa, sig, DM, box, videobar, vest, tutor, polo, touringcar, topfit, abseiling and 263 more...
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SPOR - Olympic glossary
hurdle, tempo, consortium, caption, mutual understanding, jury, radio, javelin, extra time, boxing, Lander, European and 521 more...
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favorite sports
hockey, softball, volleyball, basketball, tennis, soccer, track, forensics, lacrosse, ping pong, swimming, football and 13 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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A Dram Too Many
notanotherjazzpoet had a very promising list which appears to have petered out. Yes, tosspots: descriptions of being drunk. Walk five metres on the white line then leave your suggestions right here.
drunk, guttered, pissed, baked, three sails in th..., smashed, paralytic, out of your tree, hammered, bombed, glazed, blotto and 336 more...
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crappy sports
sports that are crappy.
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Apples to Apples: Red Cards
A complete list of the red cards (things) from the popular word game.
bad haircut, carnival workers, grave robbers, Chinatown, a cheap motel, killer whales, UV rays, flat tire, Japan, Michelangelo, Alfred Hitchcock, Cindy Crawford and 734 more...
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Snoopy
Fifty things Snoopy: his favorites, his nemeses, what he imitated, and what he imagined.
daisy hill puppy ..., fuzzy face, skritched, ptui, shortstop, arm wrestling, beethoven, moose, kangaroo, pelican, python, polar bear and 38 more...
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Wide Wordie of Sports
soccer, baseball, football, basketball, polo, handball, triathlon, biathlon, heptathlon, decathlon, parkour, boxing and 56 more...
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librarygrrrl's Words
moist, chicken, boing, beast, lovey, woof, penguin, present, gift, wrap, tree, lights and 27 more...
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tomzee's Words
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for hockey.

vanishedone I'm relieved to see that hockey resembles ice hockey. Sep 28, 2008
bilby "Drunk with strong stale beer, called old hock."
- Francis Grose, 'The Vulgar Tongue'. Sep 8, 2008