hockey

16th century, of unknown origin. Possibly related to hook due to the curvature of the stick, or from French hoquet.^[1]

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hŏk'i, IPA^(key): /ˈhɒki/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑki/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒki

hockey (uncountable)

1. Any of a family of sports in which hockey sticks are used to move a ball or puck into a goal.
2. (Commonwealth) 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.

   He helped his team beat the opponent at hockey 11-9 in a high-scoring match.

3. (Canada, US) 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.

   US stadiums are packed in the winter to see ice hockey.

• Although there are many variations of hockey, such as roller hockey, street hockey, shinny, or ball hockey, hockey without a qualifier almost always means ice hockey in the United States and Canada, and field hockey in the Commonwealth, and the full names of the sports are rarely used in these areas except to avoid confusion. Note that neither the ice hockey world cup (World Cup of Hockey) nor the field hockey world cup (Hockey World Cup) include a qualifying term in their official titles.

• ice hockey
• field hockey
• (Canada) shinny, shinny hockey

hockey (uncountable)

1. (US, slang) Feces, excrement.
   • 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:

     “I thought she'd just gone to pee but I reckon she must be making hockey too.”

   • 2014, Gwen Hunter, Bloodstone:

     My anger surged back a pace. “Harry Boone is a lickspittle, butt kissing, hunk of horse hockey,” I said precisely.

See oche.

hockey (plural hockeys)

2. (darts, dated) Alternative form of oche.
   • 1950, Edmond Hoyle, Lawrence H. Dawson, “Darts”, in Hoyle’s Games Modernized, 20th edition, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, →OCLC; republished as The Complete Hoyle’s Games (Wordsworth Reference), Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 1994, →ISBN, page 457:

     As has been mentioned, Darts of to-day is essentially a "public-house game," and in pretty nearly every inn, club, or institute where it has a footing (and in which has it not!) will be found minor variations in play and often games that are peculiar to the locality or even to the "school" itself. […] And in this domestic circle, at all events, it is thought that this set of Rules will prove a useful guide when taken in conjunction with what has already been said as regards the board, its position, the hockey-line, etc.

   • 1977, Harry Harrison, chapter 22, in Skyfall, [London]: Hamlyn Publishing Group, →OCLC:

     Henry Lewis's body was tense, taut, his toes against the hockey, his right arm raised, his left eye half-closed. With grim intensity, backed by years of practice and experience, he sighted along the steel point, drew his arm back—and let the dart fly.

   • 1985, Keith Turner, Darts, 1st Perennial Library edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 22:

     Small bars would tend to produce short hockeys; the tiny fishing pubs of Yarmouth gave rise to 6ft marks […]

hockey (plural hockeys)

1. Alternative form of hawkey (“harvest supper”).

• Katherine Barber, editor (1998), “hockey”, in The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

• chokey

Borrowed from English hockey.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɔ.ki/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: hoc‧key
• Rhymes: -ɔki

hockey n (uncountable)

1. hockey, almost always field hockey

From English hockey.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhokːei̯/, [ˈho̞kːe̞i̯]
• Rhymes: -okːei

hockey

1. hockey

From English hockey.

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɔ.kɛ/, (Canada) /ɔ.ke/

• Audio (Canada):

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• Rhymes: -ɛ, -e
• Homophones: hoquet, hoquets

hockey m (uncountable)

1. hockey
2. (North America) ice hockey

   Synonym: hockey sur glace

• “hockey”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from English hockey.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.kej/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔkej
• Hyphenation: hòc‧key

hockey m (uncountable)

1. hockey

• hockey su ghiaccio
• hockey su pista/hockey a rotelle
• hockey su prato

From English hockey.

hockey m (definite singular hockeyen)

1. (sports) hockey

• hockeykølle
• ishockey

• “hockey” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From English hockey.

hockey m (definite singular hockeyen)

1. (sports) hockey

• hockeykølle
• ishockey

• “hockey” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• jóquey (rare)

Unadapted borrowing from English hockey.

• IPA^(key): /ˈoki/ [ˈo.ki], /ˈxokei/ [ˈxo.kei̯]
• Rhymes: -oki, -okei

hockey m (plural hockey)

1. hockey

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “hockey”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• Manuel Seco, Olimpia Andrés, Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023) “hockey”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]

From English hockey.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɔkʏ/

hockey c (definite singular hockeyn)

1. (sports) hockey
2. (informal) clipping of ishockey

• hockeybild c
• hockeyklubba c
• hockeyspelare c
• ishockey c
• landhockey c

• hockey in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• hockey in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• hockey in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH