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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
Collins English-English Dictionary
- hockey ['hɑkɪ]
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1.
n
null field hockey
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2.
n
a game played on a field by two opposing teams of 11 players each, who try to hit a ball into their opponents' goal using long sticks curved at the end
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3.
n
(as modifier)
- hockey stick
- hockey ball
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4.
n
See ice hockey
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5.
n
[Etymology]
C19: from earlier hawkey, of unknown origin
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1.
n
null field hockey
- hockey ['hɑkɪ]
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1.
n
(as modifier) hawkey horkey
- the hockey cart
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2.
n
[East Anglian]
[dialect]
the feast at harvest home; harvest supper
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3.
n
[Etymology]
C16: of unknown origin
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1.
n
(as modifier) hawkey horkey
Examples
- professional hockey
- 职业曲棍球 → professional
- In ice hockey the players skate around the ice and try to make a goal with the puck.
- 冰上曲棍球比赛中，球员在冰上周旋，用球杆把球击入球门。 → skate
- bantam hockey → bantam
- hockey stick → hockey
- hockey ball → hockey
- the hockey cart → hockey
- peewee hockey → peewee
- a hockey stick → stick
- 他刻苦练习冰球, 不知用坏了多少球刀。
- He practices ice hockey hard, nobody knows how many hockey blades he has worn out. → 球刀
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