puck
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishOther sportspuckpuck /pʌk/ noun [countable]
DSOa hard flat circular piece of rubber that you hit with the stick in the game of ice hockeyExamples from the Corpuspuck• FoxTrax attempts to solve this problem with a puck stuffed with circuit boards and infrared emitters.• Hockey pucks tangled up in blue.• There was a loose puck in front of the net.• Now and then when some one chased a misfired puck, one of them would skate over and ask what was going on.• I would have kept that puck.• He passed the guy the puck.• It showed the puck crossing the goal line at 19: 59. 9.• Potomski picked up the puck in the right circle, spun and fired a no-look shot past goalie Wade Flaherty.PuckPucka character who enjoys playing tricks on people in the play A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare → see also puckishOrigin puck (1800-1900) English dialect puck “to hit”, from POKE1
DSOa hard flat circular piece of rubber that you hit with the stick in the game of ice hockeyExamples from the Corpuspuck• FoxTrax attempts to solve this problem with a puck stuffed with circuit boards and infrared emitters.• Hockey pucks tangled up in blue.• There was a loose puck in front of the net.• Now and then when some one chased a misfired puck, one of them would skate over and ask what was going on.• I would have kept that puck.• He passed the guy the puck.• It showed the puck crossing the goal line at 19: 59. 9.• Potomski picked up the puck in the right circle, spun and fired a no-look shot past goalie Wade Flaherty.PuckPucka character who enjoys playing tricks on people in the play A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare → see also puckishOrigin puck (1800-1900) English dialect puck “to hit”, from POKE1