HOCKEY Definition & Meaning

hockey

[ hok-ee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

hockey

/ ˈ��ɒ��ɪ /

noun

Also called (esp US and Canadian)field hockey
1. 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
2. ( as modifier )
  hockey ball
  hockey stick
See ice hockey

hockey

/ ˈ��ɒ��ɪ /

noun

dialect.
Alsohawkeyhorkey
1. the feast at harvest home; harvest supper
2. ( as modifier )
  the hockey cart

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of hockey¹

1520–30; earlier hockie, perhaps equivalent to hock- hook ¹ + -ie -ie

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of hockey¹

C19: from earlier hawkey, of unknown origin

Origin of hockey²

C16: of unknown origin

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He planned to be following his grandkids, Casey and Avery, to their games and attending the birthday parties and anniversaries he had to miss in more than five decades as a hockey broadcaster.

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She tried several wheelchair sports after sustaining those injuries in 2017, ultimately discovering para ice hockey, which takes her all over the world competing.

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To achieve the special effects of the solar eclipse, the house was reassembled on the largest blue screen sound stage in the world, constructed ad hoc at a hockey arena in Nova Scotia.

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It presents the conversation as chatty: they apparently discussed ice hockey, the kind of detail an audience back in Russia will lap up.

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The politics have already spilled over into hockey.

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