hockey
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
hockey (uncountable)
- (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.
- (British) 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.
- A variation of hockey, such as roller hockey, street hockey, shinny, or ball hockey.
- ice hockey
- field hockey
- (Canada) shinny, shinny hockey
- French: hockey sur gazon (field hockey), hockey sur glace (ice hockey), hockey
- German: Hockey, Eishockey (ice hockey)
- Italian: hockey
- Portuguese: hóquei
- Russian: хокке́й
- Spanish: hockey
hockey (uncountable)
- (US, slang) Faeces, excrement.
- 1970, Donald Harington (writer), Lightning Bug:
- “I thought she'd just gone to pee but I reckon she must be making hockey too.”
- 2014, Gwen Hunter, Bloodstone:
- My anger surged back a pace. “Harry Boone is a lickspittle, butt kissing, hunk of horse hockey,” I said precisely.
- 1970, Donald Harington (writer), Lightning Bug:
hockey (plural hockeys)
(darts, dated) Alternative form of oche.
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