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puck

/pək/
/pək/
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Other forms: pucks

If you hit a puck with a long stick on a regular basis, you're probably a hockey player. A puck is a round, hard rubber disc.

Dictionaries hate to resort to "origin uncertain," but a few of them do when it comes to puck, the small rubber disk used in ice hockey. One theory is that it's related to the verb poke, by way of the archaic verb form of puck, "to hit or strike." Its toehold in history got firmer footing 90 years ago, when the National Hockey League was formed. In the 1930's, hockey players were referred to as pucksters in sports reporting lingo.

Definitions of puck
  1. noun
    a vulcanized rubber disk 3 inches in diameter that is used instead of a ball in ice hockey
    synonyms: hockey puck
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    type of:
    disc, disk
    a flat circular plate
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/pək/
UK
/pək/
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