hockey

Unknown origin, 16th century, possibly related to hook due to the curvature of the stick.

• enPR: hŏk'i, IPA^(key): /ˈhɒki/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɒki

hockey (uncountable)

1. (Canada, US) 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.
2. (Britain) 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.
3. A variation of hockey, such as roller hockey, street hockey, shinny, or ball hockey.

• ice hockey
• field hockey
• (Canada) shinny, shinny hockey

hockey (uncountable)

1. (US, slang) Faeces, excrement.
   • 1970, Donald Harington, 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.

See oche.

hockey (plural hockeys)

1. (darts, dated) Alternative form of oche.
   • 1950, Edmond Hoyle; Lawrence H. Dawson, “Darts”, in Hoyle’s Games Modernized, 20th edition, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, OCLC 560444866; republished as The Complete Hoyle’s Games (Wordsworth Reference), Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 1994, →ISBN, page 457:

     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.

   • 1977, Harry Harrison, chapter 22, in Skyfall, [London]: Hamlyn Publishing Group, OCLC 174111720:

     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.

   • 1985, Keith Turner, Darts, 1st Perennial Library edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 22:

     Small bars would tend to produce short hockeys; the tiny fishing pubs of Yarmouth gave rise to 6ft marks […]

• “hockey” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.

• chokey

Borrowed from English hockey.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɔ.ki/

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• Hyphenation: hoc‧key
• Rhymes: -ɔki

hockey n (uncountable)

1. hockey, usually field hockey

• hockeybal
• hockeyen
• hockeymasker
• hockeystick
• hockeyveld
• ijshockey
• unihockey
• zaalhockey

• IPA^(key): /ˈhokːei̯/, [ˈho̞kːe̞i̯]

hockey

1. hockey

From English hockey

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɔ.kɛ/
• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Homophones: hoquet, hoquets

hockey m (uncountable)

1. hockey
2. (Canada) ice hockey

• (ice hockey): hockey sur glace

• hockeyeur
• hockeyeuse
• hockey sur gazon
• hockey sur glace
• hockey sur luge

• “hockey” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): /ɔkei̯/

hockey m (invariable)

1. hockey

• hockey su ghiaccio
• hockey su pista/hockey a rotelle
• hockey su prato

From English hockey

hockey m (definite singular hockeyen)

1. (sports) hockey

• hockeykølle

• “hockey” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From English hockey

hockey m (definite singular hockeyen)

1. (sports) hockey

• hockeykølle

• “hockey” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxokei/, [ˈxokei̯]

hockey m (plural hockey)

1. hockey