hockey stick

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

hockey stick (plural hockey sticks)

1. (Canada, US, ice hockey) A stick used to handle the puck in ice hockey, having a flat, angled blade at the end.
2. (British, field hockey) A stick used to handle the ball in field hockey, having a flat-faced hook at the end.
3. (slang) A playing card with the rank of seven.
4. (slang) A statistical trend in a graph of survey data in which most of the results are flat and then the graph suddenly peaks in a steep near-vertical direction.

Derived terms

• HE-double-hockey-sticks‎
• jolly-hockey-sticks

Translations

instrument used in ice hockey

• Arabic: عَصًا m (ʕaṣan)
• Armenian: փայտիկ (hy) (pʻaytik), մական (hy) (makan)
• Belarusian: клю́шка f (kljúška)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冰球棒 (bīngqiúbàng)

• Czech: hokejka (cs) f, hůl (cs) f
• Estonian: kepp, hokikepp
• Finnish: jääkiekkomaila (fi)
• French: (Quebec) bâton de hockey m, (France) crosse (fr) f
• Georgian: ჰოკეის ყვანჭი (hoḳeis q̇vanč̣i), ყინულის ჰოკეის ყვანჭი (q̇inulis hoḳeis q̇vanč̣i), ყვანჭი (q̇vanč̣i)
• German: Hockeyschläger m
• Hungarian: hokiütő (hu)
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• Italian: bastone da hockey su ghiaccio m
• Japanese: スティック (sutikku)
• Korean: 스틱 (ko) (seutik)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hockeykølle m or f, ishockeykølle m or f

  Nynorsk: hockeykølle f, ishockeykølle f

• Polish: kij hokejowy (pl) m, kij (pl) m
• Portuguese: taco (pt) m
• Russian: клю́шка (ru) f (kljúška)
• Silesian: kryka f
• Swedish: klubba (sv) c
• Tatar: кәшәкә (tt) (käşäkä)
• Ukrainian: клю́чка (uk) f (kljúčka)

instrument used in field hockey

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 曲棍球棒 (qūgùnqiúbàng)

• Czech: hokejka (cs) f, hůl (cs) f
• Dutch: hockeystick (nl)
• Finnish: maahockeymaila
• French: bâton de hockey m
• Georgian: ჰოკეის ყვანჭი (hoḳeis q̇vanč̣i), ბალახის ჰოკეის ყვანჭი (balaxis hoḳeis q̇vanč̣i)
• German: Hockeyschläger m
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• Italian: bastone da hockey su prato m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hockeykølle m or f

  Nynorsk: hockeykølle f

• Polish: kij hokejowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: taco (pt) m
• Russian: клю́шка (ru) f (kljúška)

playing card with the rank of seven

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References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN

See also

• HE-double-hockey-sticks