icing the puck
- noun
- Jargon
:
icetear el puck
- The team was penalized for icing the puck in the final minutes of the period.
Examples
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The coach warned the players to avoid icing the puck under pressure.
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After icing the puck, the defensive players were not allowed to make a line change.
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The referee called icing the puck during the game.
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Why did they get penalized for icing the puck?
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The players quickly learned that icing the puck can halt their momentum during the game.
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The referee called icing the puck after the puck was shot from behind the red line.
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After icing the puck, the opposing team was given a chance to set up their play.
Synonyms
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6.3
In ice hockey, sending the puck from behind the center line across the opponent's goal line is illegal unless touched
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a sport-specific, technical rule of ice hockey whose full meaning (shooting the puck across specific lines causing stoppage) is not predictable from the literal senses of 'icing' (normally a process involving ice) and 'puck' (a hockey disk). The phrase functions as jargon that learners must have seen in context or learned explicitly rather than being compositionally derivable, so it is not transparent to a B1 learner who only knows the constituent words.
Etymology
The hockey term icing the puck comes from shooting the puck from your own end across the center line and the other team's goal line without anyone touching it. Because this makes the referee 'stop play', the phrase means that long, untouched shot that causes a stoppage and is often used when a team sends the puck away to relieve pressure.