Recent Examples on the WebBecause their hockey team will either lift the NHL’s Stanley Cup championship trophy for the first time in 30 franchise seasons … or suffer a loss of epic, historic magnitude – what by one measure would be the sport’s worst defeat in more than 80 years.—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 22 June 2024 Colorado’s hockey team still has a top half of the roster few NHL teams can match.—Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 22 June 2024 Back in the design studios of such fitness giants as Reebok in Stoughton, Massachusetts; Nike in Beaverton, Oregon; and L.A. Gear in Los Angeles, designers take inspiration from such disparate sources as perfume bottles, hockey uniforms, mail-order catalogs, and, of course, fashion runways.—Arthur Elgort, Vogue, 21 June 2024 Exactly two months after the owners of the Arizona Coyotes sold the team to a Salt Lake City businessman, the road to re-establishing the hockey franchise in metro Phoenix just got bumpier.—Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 21 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for hockey
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Word History
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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