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Hockey Game

Definition: Hockey Game

Hockey Game

Noun

1. A game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of 6 skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with hockey sticks.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Hockey Game

Synonyms: hockey (n), ice hockey (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Hockey Game

English words defined with "hockey game": centerDoddarthat trick, hockey, hurlingice hockeyPoloShinney, Shinty. (references)
Etymologies containing "hockey game": Doddart. (references)

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Modern Usage: Hockey Game

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Screenplays

I promised I'd go with you to a hockey game, and you promised you'd sit through an entire opera. (Manhattan Murder Mystery; writing credit: Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman. Starring Woody Allen as Larry Lipton, Diane Keaton as Carol Lipton, Alan Alda as Ted, and Anjelica Huston as Marcia Fox.)

No, but, what you said about wanting to go to a hockey game wanting me to be part of your life I think I wasn't clear about something. (Alias; writing credit: Robert Soulé; Henri de Turenne)

Lyrics

Glued to that damn hockey game (RAISED ON ROBBERY; performing artist: Joni Mitchell)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Hockey Game

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Ice hockey game between Detroit Red Wings and New York Rangers for Stanley Cup, showing Rangers Jackie Gordon, Harry Lumley and Leo Reise.Credit: Library of Congress.

Holton Arms School. Field hockey game at Holton Arms School I.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hockey Game

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  hockey game

192

  hockey game online

88

  air hockey game

64

  air hockey game table

7

  table top hockey game

7

  ice hockey game

6

  toy hockey game

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Hockey Game

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-g-h-k-m-o-y"

-3 letters: hoecake.

-4 letters: cheeky, chegoe, chokey, comake, echoey, hackee, hakeem, hockey, homage, ohmage.

-5 letters: ackee, cagey, cakey, cameo, cheek, chemo, choke, choky, chyme, comae, cymae, gamey, gecko, geeky, hacek, hoagy, hokey, homey, mache, macho, mahoe, mocha, ogham, omega, yogee.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

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Alternative Orthography: Hockey Game


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 6F 63 6B 65 79      47 61 6D 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01101111 01100011 01101011 01100101 01111001 00100000 01000111 01100001 01101101 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#111 &#99 &#107 &#101 &#121 &#32 &#71 &#97 &#109 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 006F 0063 006B 0065 0079      0047 0061 006D 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

428169777191241677971

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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