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- Dictionarypuck/pʌk/
noun
- 1. a black disc made of hard rubber, used in ice hockey.
- 2. an input device resembling a mouse, dragged across a mat which senses its position to move the cursor on the screen.
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PUCK definition: 1. a small, hard rubber disc that is used instead of a ball in ice hockey (= a game played on ice…. Learn more.
a vulcanized rubber disk used in ice hockey; something (such as a food item) that resembles a puck… See the full definition
a small, hard, rubber disk used in hockey (= a game played on ice) (Definition of puck from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of puck. puck. They possessed the puck but, in what would hurt them later, blew quality chances.
Puck definition: a black disk of vulcanized rubber that is to be hit into the goal.. See examples of PUCK used in a sentence.
6 meanings: 1. a small disc of hard rubber used in ice hockey 2. a stroke at the ball in hurling 3. Irish slang a sharp blow 4..... Click for more definitions.
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."
n. 1. (Hockey (Field & Ice)) a small disc of hard rubber used in ice hockey. 2. (Team Sports, other than specified) a stroke at the ball in hurling. 3. slang Irish a sharp blow. vb (tr) 4. (Team Sports, other than specified) to strike (the ball) in hurling. 5. slang Irish to strike hard; punch. [C19: of unknown origin] puck. (pʌk) n.
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PUCK definition: in ice hockey (= a sport), a small, hard disc that players hit with a stick. Learn more.
Puck (puk), n. Literature, Mythology Also called Hobgoblin, Robin Goodfellow. a particularly mischievous sprite in English folklore who appears as a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Mythology (l.c.) a malicious or mischievous demon or spirit; a goblin.
