hockey

UK /ˈhɒ.ki/ US /ˈhɑ.ki/
noun 6name 1

Definitions

noun

1

Any of a family of sports in which hockey sticks are used to move a ball or puck into a goal.

2

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.

He helped his team beat the opponent at hockey 11-9 in a high-scoring match.

3

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.

US stadiums are packed in the winter to see ice hockey.

Canada’s men’s hockey team defeated the USA 3-2 in overtime Thursday to capture the inaugural 4 Nations Face-Off Championship as the NHL put on a show in the first edition of this midseason international tournament.

noun

1

Feces, excrement.

“I thought she'd just gone to pee but I reckon she must be making hockey too.”

My anger surged back a pace. “Harry Boone is a lickspittle, butt kissing, hunk of horse hockey,” I said precisely.

noun

1

Alternative form of oche.

As has been mentioned, Darts of to-day is essentially a "public-house game," and in pretty nearly every inn, club, or institute where it has a footing (and in which has it not!) will be found minor variations in play and often games that are peculiar to the locality or even to the "school" itself. […] And in this domestic circle, at all events, it is thought that this set of Rules will prove a useful guide when taken in conjunction with what has already been said as regards the board, its position, the hockey-line, etc.

Henry Lewis's body was tense, taut, his toes against the hockey, his right arm raised, his left eye half-closed. With grim intensity, backed by years of practice and experience, he sighted along the steel point, drew his arm back—and let the dart fly.

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