blue line

noun

: either of two blue lines that divide an ice hockey rink into three equal zones and that separate the offensive and defensive zones from the center-ice neutral zone

Examples of blue line in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Thirty seconds later, McMorrow sprinted onto a loose puck near his team’s blue line, then whipped a pass from the left side to the Slovakians’ far post, where a lunging Spellacy tipped it inside the iron. —Tris Wykes, Twin Cities, 30 Dec. 2025

Early in the second, Zadorov tried to tap a loose puck up to David Pastrnak in the neutral zone from his blue line. —Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 24 Dec. 2025

Oettinger thwarted Toronto's best early scoring chance midway through the first period after Auston Matthews poked the puck away from Thomas Harley just inside the Stars' blue line and skated in alone. —CBS News, 22 Dec. 2025

Klingberg took a pass from Macklin Celebrini inside the Capitals’ blue line, and hesitated for a moment before Duhaime got on top of him and knocked the puck off his stick and into the neutral zone. —Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 4 Dec. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1925, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for blue line

• affine
• airline
• align
• aline
• assign
• baseline
• beamline
• benign
• bloodline
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• canine