high-stickv.
/ˌhʌɪˈstɪk/, U.S. /ˌhaɪˈstɪk/ Sport.
1. transitive. Chiefly Ice Hockey. To strike (an opponent) on or above the shoulders with one's stick, for which a penalty may be assessed. Also occasionally intransitive.
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1926 N.Y. Times 31 Mar. 17/3 Manager Lester Patrick put on Halderson..after Fraser was chased for high-sticking Babe Siebert.
1936 Medicine Hat (Alberta) News 16 Oct. 7/4 The official records of the game disclose no penalty for him, which he would receive had he high-sticked.
1987 Toronto Star 16 June n5 My little girl has..joined the lacrosse team... Most of the time, they are too busy tripping over them [sc. their sticks] to high stick or sideswipe anyone.
1995 K. Nelson Slap Shots ii. 13 [He] received a fine for high-sticking..Federov.
2005 Sunday Life (Belfast) (Nexis) 28 Aug. He got high-sticked in the face and lost all his teeth.
2. transitive. Ice Hockey. To hit (the puck) with one's stick raised above shoulder height, for which a goal may be disallowed or a stoppage called. Frequently with in, over, etc.
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1971 Altoona (Pa.) Mirror 5 Feb. 23/5 Referee Art Skov ruled the puck was high-sticked into the net.
1975 Daily Herald (Provo, Utah) 9 Dec. 7/4 Buch Williams had high-sticked the puck over to Moxey on the play.
1989 Washington Post 4 Mar. d5/1 Randy Cunneyworth batted the puck into the net, but was ruled to have high-sticked it in.
1994 1995 NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Rules 83 Summary of Face-Off Locations... Puck high-sticked directly to goalkeeper.
2003 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 5 Dec. f1 ‘I knew I high-sticked it,’ he admitted, ‘but then he [sc. the referee] didn't blow it down.’
Derivatives
ˌhigh-ˈsticking n.
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1929 N.Y. Times 10 Mar. (Sports section) 1/6 Garrison's high sticking caused his banishment a minute after play began.
1989 Pacific Stars & Stripes 17 Apr. 25/2 Team USA had a goal disallowed..because of high sticking with less than a minute remaining.
2010 M. Malamut She's got Game iv. 208 Most minor penalties, like high-sticking, can be deemed major if they are seen as malicious.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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