hockey puck
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2.8
- noun
- /ˈhɑːki pʌk/
- UK
:
puck de hockey
- The coach emphasized the importance of keeping your eye on the hockey puck while playing.
- size of a hockey puck
- hit by a hockey puck
The body, you know, can't shoot a basketball, can't hit a hockey puck.
- The body, you know, can't shoot a basketball, can't hit a hockey puck.
- And then what if we took the same material and instead of what some folks are doing with making discs, they look like hockey pucks, right?
Examples
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Need an autographed hockey puck?
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They weren't fit to be used as hockey pucks.
Blog text (3) -
I could hit anything with a hockey puck.
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Last time I had them, they were like little hockey pucks.
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It did seem like a cross between a hockey puck and a golf ball.
Fiction book (1994) -
During the game, the player skillfully passed the hockey puck to his teammate.
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After the match, the fan collected a signed hockey puck from her favorite player.
Synonyms
65
4.7
A small hard rubber disk that players hit in ice hockey
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a straightforward noun–noun compound: 'hockey' names the sport and 'puck' names the rubber disk; the combined meaning is directly derivable from the constituents. Such sport+object compounds are cross-linguistically common and follow transparent compositional patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand the phrase.
Etymology
Hockey puck is the name of the hard, flat rubber disk players hit across the ice. The word puck may come from an old word meaning 'to poke', because players poke the disk with their sticks, so today hockey puck simply means the disk used in ice hockey.