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(racquet sports) A player who plays a backhand shot.
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(basketball) One who handles the ball.
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(ice hockey, shuffleboard) A puck (hockey puck).
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(sports) A move in ice hockey or lacrosse in which a player impedes another with his body
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A game in which two competing players with sticks attempt to move a hockey puck through the central dividers of a box and out through a goal hole on the opposite side.
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(ice hockey) A member of the Vancouver Canucks professional NHL ice hockey team.
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(ice-skating) To not broadcast a medal-winning or otherwise memorable or crucial figure skating performance. This only occurs in a live broadcast because the network has to decide which programs to show and which to cut in the interest of time. If a skater is low in the rankings and several big names are set to skate later, that performance may be cut.
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A deliberate, unsportsmanlike, and potentially illegal act of aggression against an opponent.
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(sports) Located next to the court of play.
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(ice hockey) An illegal maneuver whereby an ice hockey player hits and pushes another player with their ice hockey stick while holding the stick with both hands, with no part of the hockey stick touching the ice surface.
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(ice hockey) To commit the infraction of checking an opponent by using the shaft of one's stick with both hands.
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(court tennis) A division, at one end of a tennis court, for spectators.
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(Ice hockey, slang) To hit the cross bar or one of the posts.
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(ice hockey) One of the five spots in an ice hockey rink where play may begin.
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(disc sports) A throw similar to a sidearm throw in baseball, where the disc remains on the throwing-arm side of the body and is led by the middle finger.
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(squash, racquetball) The main and largest wall in court, located at the front of the world; the wall which the ball must hit in a rally.
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(ice hockey) The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.
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(ice hockey) To shoot the puck into the goal between the goaltender's legs.
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(ice hockey, rare, colloquial) goalkeeping
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(ice hockey, figuratively) Ellipsis of Wayne Gretzky.
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(ice hockey) The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
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(ice hockey) One of the parallel lines on either side of the face-off circles.
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(ice hockey, soccer) Three goals scored by one player in a game, in ice hockey usually followed by fans throwing their hats onto the rink.
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(ice hockey) To use one's hockey stick to strike an opponent's head.
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(ice hockey) A penalized action in the sport of ice hockey where a player knowingly or inadvertently raises (the hand-grip part of) his stick above shoulder level.
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(Canada, US) An ice hockey player.
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(ice hockey) A small black flat roundel of hardened rubber used as a playing piece in ice hockey to score points by moving the puck into the opponent's goal net.
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A building that houses such a surface.
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Someone interested in hockey.
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(field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)
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(Canada, slang) A person who hoses down a lake after a game of hockey, to return it to a smooth state.
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(figuratively, Ultimate Frisbee) A throw that stays in the air long enough that it allows too many people to get underneath it, increasing the risk of injury and a trip to the hospital.
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(ice hockey) A minor violation of ice hockey rules, occurring when a player shoots the puck from his/her side of the red line so that it crosses the goal line on the opponent's side. A team playing short-handed is not penalized for this.
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(sports) A kickball player.
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(printing) A device that periodically displaces a newspaper from the print production line, to aid in gathering the newspapers into fixed-size bundles.
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(ice hockey) A deke consisting of lifting the puck with the stick and throwing it under the top corner of the goal, while skating behind the net.
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(UK) The sport of underwater hockey.
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Alternative form of outshoot [(sports, US) To score more goals than the other side in a goal sport such as hockey or soccer]
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(ice hockey) An enclosed bench where a player must remain for timed period (a penalty) that is assessed after an infraction.
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(ice hockey) A forward who is capable of both rugged physical play and scoring goals.
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(ice hockey) A situation where a team has a numerical advantage on the ice due to one or more penalties given to the opposing team.
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(ice hockey) A hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game.
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Alternative form of puck-handling [(ice hockey) The ability to control the puck; stickhandling.]
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(ice hockey) The ability to control the puck; stickhandling.
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Alternative form of puck-handling [(ice hockey) The ability to control the puck; stickhandling.]
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(hurling) A free hit by the goalkeeper after the sliotar has gone behind the goal.
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(US, Canada) An ice hockey player.
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(ice hockey) The state of being a goalkeeper
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(US) Synonym of wheelchair rugby (US regional name and American English vernacular name)
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(ice hockey) To retain possession of the puck by skillful skating and stickhandling without attempting to score, as a deliberate tactic intended to use up time.
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(ice hockey) The team New York Rangers, located in New York City.
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(basketball) A player who rebounds.
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(ice hockey) The thick red line on the ice which divides the rink in half.
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(transitive, sports) To save (a shot).
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(sports) A match in which both teams score highly.
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Alternative form of shot stopper [(soccer, colloquial) A goalkeeper. More specifically refers to the ability to make saves, as opposed to other areas of goalkeeping like distribution and coming off the line.]
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(squash, racquetball) Either of the two parallel walls in a court, perpendicular to the front wall; either of the walls on the side of the court.
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The wall forming the side of a racquetball court.
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(ice hockey) A player who is not a goaltender.
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(ice hockey) The fastest shot in hockey, which typically involves levering the stick above the head before swinging it down to strike the puck with maximum power.
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(ice hockey) Alternative spelling of slap shot [(ice hockey) The fastest shot in hockey, which typically involves levering the stick above the head before swinging it down to strike the puck with maximum power.]
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(transitive, soccer) To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
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(ice hockey slang) A goal.
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(ice hockey) An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
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(ice hockey, field hockey, lacrosse) Skillful manipulation of the puck or ball with a player's stick, allowing the player to maintain control of the puck or ball.
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(Britain) An informal kind of hockey (field hockey) played on a quiet street.
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(ice hockey) a pass going up-ice where the passee must look behind towards the passer for the location of the puck, therefore being left unaware of opposition players further up-ice, allowing the passee to be checked from a blind spot
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(water polo) The start of a period, in which the two teams try to reach the ball placed in the centre of the pool.
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(basketball) To give a coach or player a technical foul.
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(ice hockey) A deke in which a player uses the toe of their stick to drag the puck back towards themselves and out of a defender's reach.
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(Canada, ice hockey) The upper part of the goal.
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(in men's golf) The U.S. Open, British Open, Canadian Open
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(American football) A particular kind of offensive formation. See wishbone formation.
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(ice hockey) A wrist shot, a shot made primarily with a wrist motion
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