hockey

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   Feces, excrement.

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

4. 4
   noun

   Alternative form of oche.

   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.

5. 5
   noun

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

6. 6
   noun

   a game resembling ice hockey that is played on an open field

7. 7
   noun

   Any of a family of sports in which hockey sticks are used to move a ball or puck into a goal.

8. 8
   noun

   Alternative form of hawkey (“harvest supper”).

Etymology

16th century, of unknown origin. Possibly related to hook due to the curvature of the stick, akin to hock (“hook”) + -ey, or from Middle French hoquet (“shepherd's staff, crook”), which resembles a hockey stick, via a diminutive form of Old French hoc from Middle Dutch hoec (“hook”), a cognate of Old English hōc.