hockey
[hok-ee]
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Origin of hockey
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Examples from the Web for hockey
Contemporary Examples
I watch football, basketball, and hockey on TV and sometimes “The Bass Pros” on Outdoor Channel.
Barnes and Harper talked deeply about hockey, a subject that the prime minister has written a book about.
They were also, according to NHL coaching great Scotty Bowman, the greatest lineup in the history of hockey.
Putin’s Hockey Pal Tells All: Slava Fetisov on ‘Red Army,’ Soviet Nostalgia, and What Drives PutinMarlow Stern
October 9, 2014
Hockey outcomes are not obstacles to the mathematically impaired.
As Chris Rock put it in his great heroin and hockey routine, “Only junkies want heroin, only hockey fans watch hockey.”
Historical Examples
Hockey, dances, and good times were the subjects he dealt with.
Mary-'GustaJoseph C. Lincoln
This was observed by a gang of boys playing at hockey in the road.
The ManxmanHall Caine
You know she was on the crew and the basketball team and the hockey team at college.
HighacresJane Abbott
And I can't play on the hockey team in the inter-class match this week!
HighacresJane Abbott
Hockey is all very well, but give me our orange groves and the blue sea.
The Jolliest School of AllAngela Brazil
hockey1
- Also called (esp US and Canadian): field hockey
- a game played on a field by two opposing teams of 11 players each, who try to hit a ball into their opponents' goal using long sticks curved at the end
- (as modifier)hockey stick; hockey ball
- See ice hockey
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Word Origin
C19: from earlier hawkey, of unknown origin
hockey2
- East Anglian dialect
- the feast at harvest home; harvest supper
- (as modifier)the hockey cart
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Word Origin
C16: of unknown origin
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Word Origin and History for hockey
n.
after an isolated reference from Ireland dated 1527 ("The horlinge of the litill balle with hockie stickes or staves ..."), the word is next recorded 1838 from W. Sussex; of unknown origin, perhaps related to Middle French hoquet "shepherd's staff, crook," diminutive of Old French hoc "hook." The hooked clubs with which the game is played resemble shepherds' staves. In North America, ice hockey is distinguished from field hockey.
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