单词 | stick-handle |
释义 | stick-handlev. 1. intransitive and transitive. Ice Hockey. To control or manoeuvre (the puck) with one's stick. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > ice hockey > engage in ice hockey [verb (intransitive)] > actions stick-handle1912 deke1961 1912 Manitoba (Winnipeg) Free Press 4 Apr. 6/2 The American teams..are exceptionally fast but they do not stick handle with the skill and the brilliancy of the Canadians. 1937 Brandon (Manitoba) Daily Sun 28 May 3/3 Jimmy Esslemont..hurdled two fallen players and stick-handled the puck into the nets for a goal. 1969 M. Braithwaite Never sleep Three in Bed (1970) xv. 182 Back in 1926, he really couldn't skate very well, but he could stick-handle like a fiend. 2011 N.Y. Times 6 Mar. (Week in Review section) 3/3 It's different for hockey—players can skate fast, check hard, stick-handle the puck and otherwise play a full-tilt game without anyone getting hit in the head. 2. transitive and intransitive. Chiefly Canadian. To skilfully manoeuvre (something), esp. through obstacles. ΚΠ 1960 Medicine Hat (Alberta) News 22 Jan. 1/1 Two young Conservative MPs..stickhandled the government's emergency farm legislation through the Commons Thursday. 1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 20 Oct. Maybe Mr. Tan can stick-handle his way through these problems; he is obviously an imaginative thinker. 2004 Enterprise Sept. 18/1 With a staff of three stick-handling $7 million in assets and serving 1,200 members, ‘every day is a struggle, to be perfectly honest,’ McKenzie says. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1912 |
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