| 释义 |
octopush|ˈɒktəpʊʃ|
[f. octopus + push n.1]
A game of underwater hockey (see quots.). Hence ˈoctopusher, one who plays octopush.
1970Times 18 Feb. 11 Octopush..is a new form of underwater hockey... The game is played by teams of six... The object of the game is to propel or shovel the puck..along the bottom of the pool and into the opponents' gull [sc. goal]. 1971Observer 23 May 19/2 (caption) Octopush..the name of the game for skindivers. Players try to push a lead puck (called a squid) through the other team's goal (gulley). 1973Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 7 Jan. 2/3 Octopush..is played like underwater hockey. The teams, in flippers and face masks, but no oxygen tanks, play in a pool six feet deep. Instead of hockey sticks they use pushers,—shaped something like a rake with a blade where the prongs should be. 1973Telegraph (Brisbane) 7 Mar. 3/2 Not mermaids but octopushers..are members of the Safari Women's team which plays the new game of octopush—diving to push a lead weight along the bottom of a swimming pool into the opposing team's goal. |