hockey

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  1. noun Ice hockey.
  2. noun Field hockey.
  3. noun Street hockey.

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  • "But I think we have been playing some pretty good hockey, which is why the W's are there." —  Bruins Top Stories
  • This often makes for what Tom Watkinson of Telluride described as a hockey rink. —  GJSentinel - Latest News Headlines
  • Even before I came to be a Canadiens fan in hockey, which is more or less mandatory in that city, they were my #1 team. —  The Moderate Voice
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  • Though proportionally less passionate than the Canadians about ice-hockey, the Russians now have a bigger economy than the latter.
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. Also written hawkey, hookey; apparently from hook, in ref. to the hooked or curved club.
  2. Also written hawkey, horkey; origin obscure; possibly a corruption of hock-day, q. v., which seems to have been applicable to any festival day.
 

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/ˈhɑki/
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