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hockey

Pronunciation: /ˈhɒ.ki/

The English word “hockey” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Any of a family of sports in which hockey sticks are used to move a ball or puck into a goal.
  2. 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. 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.
  4. Feces, excrement.

Etymology

16th century, of unknown origin. Possibly related to hook due to the curvature of the stick, akin to hock (“hook”) + -ey, or from Middle French hoquet (“shepherd's staff, crook”), which resembles a hockey stick, via a diminutive form of Old French hoc from Middle Dutch hoec (“hook”), a cognate of Old English hōc.

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