hockey stick
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.26 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A stick used to handle the puck in ice hockey, having a flat, angled blade at the end.
Canadian usage; American usage
noun
A stick used to handle the ball in field hockey, having a flat-faced hook at the end.
British usage
noun
A playing card with the rank of seven.
Example Sentences
- "The game itself, though played by men, was probably meant to enact a mediation of the opposites of male and female, with a circular puck being the feminine symbol and the phallic hockey stick being the masculine symbol."
- "One of the pillars of the case for man-made global warming is a graph nicknamed the hockey stick. It's a reconstruction of temperatures over the past 1,000 years based on records captured in tree rings, corals and other markers. The stick's shaft shows temperatures oscillating slightly over the ages. Then comes the blade: The mercury swings sharply upward in the 20th century."
- "They made it the focus of their attacks, hoping that by demolishing the hockey stick graph they would destroy the credibility of climate scientists and the notion of global warming as a phenomenon caused by human activity."
- "“That said, we continue to remain cautious of pie-in-the-sky forecasts that see this hockey stick continuing indefinitely,” Nathanson added[…]."