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Definition: Hockey Puck |
Hockey PuckNoun1. A vulcanized rubber disk 3 inches in diameter that is used instead of a ball in ice hockey. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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A puck is a hard rubber disk used in ice hockey, one inch thick (25.4 mm) and 3 inches in diameter (76.2 mm), and weighing between 5.5 to 6 oz (156-170 g). It is frozen a few hours before the game to prevent bouncing. Pucks can reach speed of 100 mph (160 km/h) when hit by players' sticks, and spectators at hockey games are occasionally injured. On March 18, 2002, a teenage girl was killed by a hockey puck at an NHL game.The origin of the word is obscure, but evidently not connected to Shakespeare's Puck or the mythical Puck. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests the name is related to the verb to puck (a cognate of poke) used in hurling for striking or pushing the ball.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hockey puck."
Synonym: Hockey PuckSynonym: puck (n). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | I need a valium the size of a hockey puck. (Broadway Danny Rose; writing credit: Woody Allen) | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hockey puck | 42 |
hockey puck holder | 12 |
hockey puck display case | 5 |
hockey puck case | 4 |
air hockey puck | 3 |
hockey puck stick | 3 |
hockey puck display | 2 |
art clip hockey puck | 2 |
flyer hockey puck | 2 |
hockey puck weight | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "hockey puck"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | шайба (puck, rove, shim, spacer, washer). (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-h-k-k-o-p-u-y" | |
-3 letters: checkup. | |
-4 letters: chokey, chucky, cockup, copeck, hockey, kopeck, occupy, pouchy. | |
-5 letters: check, chock, choke, choky, chuck, cocky, couch, coupe, coypu, epoch, hokey, hokku, kopek, ouphe, pecky, pocky, pokey, pouch, yecch, yucch. | |
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