roller hockey

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noun

a game similar to ice hockey played on roller skates.

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Origin of roller hockey

First recorded in 1925–30

I watch football, basketball, and hockey on TV and sometimes “The Bass Pros” on Outdoor Channel.
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They're made to make a lot of money and to get teenagers in a kind of experience, a roller coaster ride.
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Many of those gathering in the run-up to the grand jury decision wore hockey and tear gas masks to conceal their identity.
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Barnes and Harper talked deeply about hockey, a subject that the prime minister has written a book about.
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People would just be shouting, like you go to church, a holy roller church or something like that.
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An amount of slack in the chain caused the balls to knock on passing this roller before entering the pump bottom.
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But before this extreme is reached, the momentum of the revolving balance carries the roller pin entirely out of the fork.
The Wonder Book of Knowledge|Various
I hitched the horse to my improvised drag and smoothed it again, several times, in default of a roller.
The Idyl of Twin Fires|Walter Prichard Eaton
They were of elm, with lignum vit roller sheaves, and were bound inside with iron, and had swivel eyes.
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Roller shades on the door and window and an electric door bell completed a very neat and practical playhouse.
The Boy Mechanic, Book 2|Various