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Just not the result — a familiar refrain against the hockey club from Dallas.—Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 19 Mar. 2026 The San Diego Gulls hockey team will celebrate Pride during a game against the Bakersfield Condors.—Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2026 This allowed its ultra-sensitive 24 detectors, which are made of ultra-pure silicon and germanium crystals, each just larger than a hockey puck, to finally switch on.—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 18 Mar. 2026 This is really the end of his first year playing college hockey.—Dean Spiros, Twin Cities, 18 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for hockey
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Etymology
perhaps from Middle French hoquet shepherd's crook, diminutive of hoc hook, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English hōc hook