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Brown is playing his best hockey since coming to Edmonton, and his scoring over the last month has been a most welcome addition to his penalty-killing work.—Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025 That Jaffa Cakes morph into hockey pucks when left out too long foretold the taxpayer’s triumph.—Robert Goulder, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025 Gabriel Landeskog went 1,020 days without playing in a hockey game.—Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 12 Apr. 2025 Small Ceremonies, by Kyle Edwards Struggling to shake a losing streak, the St. Croix Tigers, Winnipeg’s North End hockey team, faces an uncertain future in Kyle Edwards’ pulsing, thoughtful novel.—Monitor Contributors, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hockey
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Etymology
perhaps from Middle French hoquet shepherd's crook, diminutive of hoc hook, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English hōc hook
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