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hockey


hockey [hok-ee] ExamplesWord Origin noun

  1. ice hockey.
  2. field hockey.

Origin of hockey 1520–30; earlier hockie, perhaps equivalent to hock- hook1 + -ie -ie Examples from the Web for hockey Contemporary Examples of hockey

  • I watch football, basketball, and hockey on TV and sometimes “The Bass Pros” on Outdoor Channel.

    Up to a Point: They Made Me Write About Lena Dunham

    P. J. O’Rourke

    December 13, 2014

  • Barnes and Harper talked deeply about hockey, a subject that the prime minister has written a book about.

    The GOP Has a New Darling, But He Lives in Canada

    Tim Mak

    October 23, 2014

  • 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 Putin

    Marlow Stern

    October 9, 2014

  • Hockey outcomes are not obstacles to the mathematically impaired.

    Up To a Point: Oops, I Enjoyed Soccer

    P. J. O’Rourke

    July 13, 2014

  • As Chris Rock put it in his great heroin and hockey routine, “Only junkies want heroin, only hockey fans watch hockey.”

    The World Cup Still Hasn’t Conquered America

    Allen Barra

    July 8, 2014

  • Historical Examples of hockey

  • Hockey, dances, and good times were the subjects he dealt with.

    Mary-‘Gusta

    Joseph C. Lincoln

  • This was observed by a gang of boys playing at hockey in the road.

    The Manxman

    Hall Caine

  • You know she was on the crew and the basketball team and the hockey team at college.

    Highacres

    Jane Abbott

  • And I can’t play on the hockey team in the inter-class match this week!

    Highacres

    Jane Abbott

  • Hockey is all very well, but give me our orange groves and the blue sea.

    The Jolliest School of All

    Angela Brazil

  • British Dictionary definitions for hockey hockey 1 noun

    1. 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 stick; hockey ball
    2. See ice hockey

    Word Origin for hockey C19: from earlier hawkey, of unknown origin hockey 2 noun

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

      Also: hawkey, horkey

    Word Origin for hockey C16: of unknown origin 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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