Crossword clues for deke
deke
- Nickname on the memoir "Moon Shot"
- NASA nickname
- Mercury astronaut Slayton
- Member of a frat founded at Yale
- Member of a certain fraternity
- Ice hockey feint / Squeezed (out)
- Ice hockey feint
- Hockey player's fake-out
- Hockey player's fake
- Goalie's undoing
- Frat man
- Fool a line-backer
- Feint like Wayne Gretzky
- Feint by a Flyer
- Fake, in hockey
- Fake-out on ice
- Fake-out in a rink
- Fake out, on the rink
- Fake out on the rink
- Fake out in the rink
- Fake out at the rink
- Fake on the ice
- Fake like a Blue Jacket
- Fake from a Washington Capital
- Fake at a hockey game
- Fake a move
- Deceptive hockey maneuver
- Deceive on the ice
- Certain frat man, for short
- Canajun for an evasive athletic manoever
- Bit of ice hockey deception
- 1970s astronaut Slayton
- Astronaut Slayton
- Hockey fake-out
- Hockey feint
- Deceive, on the ice
- Apollo astronaut Slayton, familiarly
- Slayton of Apollo 18
- Fool on the ice
- Gridiron feint
- Hockey player's deceptive move
- Fraternity brother of Dubya
- Rink fake-out
- Fake at the rink
- Hockey player's "dangle"
- Rink fooler
- Hockey ploy
- NASA's Slayton
- Fake out on the ice
- Feint on the ice
- Rink feint
- Hockey move
- Hockey fake
- Tricky rink move
- Mercury Seven astronaut Slayton
- Hockey trick
- Hockey player's feint
- Fake in the rink
- Unexpected move
- Tricky hockey maneuver
- Tricky hockey game maneuver
- Slayton of the Mercury Seven
- Slayton of NASA
- Rink ploy
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1960, ice hockey slang for a quick feinting move, short for decoy. The verb is attested from 1961.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context ice hockey English) A feint, fake, or other move made by the player with the puck to deceive a goaltender or other defender. 2 (context ice hockey English) A series of feints, fakes, or other moves made by the player with the puck to deceive a goaltender or other defender. 3 (context Canada slang English) A quick detour. vb. 1 (context Canada English) To avoid, go around, or dodge an object, person, or conversation topic; often by using trickery. 2 (context ice hockey English) To execute a '''deke'''.
Wikipedia
A deke is a technique in sports used to move past an opponent
Deke may also refer to
- Delta Kappa Epsilon, a college fraternity
- Deke Slayton, one of the original 7 Mercury astronauts
- Dikembe Mutombo, basketball player
- Deke Sharon, singer, musician, producer
- Deke (Fire Emblem), a character in the video game Fire Emblem: Fūin no Tsurugi (known as Dieck in the Japanese version and an alternate translation from Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
A deke feint or fake is an ice hockey technique whereby a player draws an opposing player out of position or is used to skate by an opponent while maintaining possession and control of the puck. The term is a Canadianism formed by abbreviating the word decoy.
The position of the player performing the deke and the defender determines where the puck will be moved and the speed. The deke can be used to move the puck out of reach of an opposing player, move the puck past the opposing player, or quickly change direction of the puck so the opposing player is caught out of position. Dekes are usually used in combination with either a change of direction or speed, or both; the deke may refer to the entire sequence of actions as well as the maneuver(s) made with the stick. Often a change in direction or a change in speed is enough to get past an opposing player, but dekes are used in combination with these to better protect the puck and get by a defender.
Usage examples of "deke".
Deke Belcher, 77, a neighbor of Abies, who said the FBI and federal marshals should leave the mountain and its residents alone.
As for Bly, Deke would not have liked him even if he had not been with Carol Bell.
Bill Bly was the hero of the rodeo world and Deke Murphy was an unknown, a hard-faced youngster who had dropped off a freight train and rustled a job handling stock for the rodeo.
I knew those seven faces as well as an earlier generation of space nuts had known the faces of Al Shepard, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Deke Slayton, Gordon Cooper, Scott Carpenter.
Whatever it was that had initially turned her off to Bonita Vista seemed to have finally and completely died with Deke Meldrum.
Bly walked on to where Shadow, an evil-eyed grulla, was being saddled for Deke Murphy, who perched on the side of the chute.
When Deke Lindera was replaced by the pale guard, Vett Zimmer took a sleeping capsule and went off for some rest.
Handing them to Deke Lindera, he turned wordlessly back to the elevator door.
If there was something after Deke, but it was willing to take its time and use a long-term plan, the smartest move would be to leave no telltales behind.
Johnson, President Eisenhower, Secretary Wilson, the astronauts Deke Slayton and Mike Collins, and the scientists Jack Eddy, John Houbolt and Carl Sagan, but they are not given fictitious roles or inflated speeches.
At the beginning of the six-month indoctrination, Deke Slayton, lean and mean, appeared before the astronauts with a stack of basic manuals and specific flight plans twenty-seven inches thick.
It is just barely possible that we have three different things acting here-one after Deke, one after Monica Carlin, and the power that's been here all along.
Deke, one after Monica Carlin, and the power that's been here all along.
Under other circumstances, Ned would have checked the heading, but he had to concentrate on the autochthones— And the chance of Deke Warson getting lost because he misread a chart wasn't worth worrying about.
He could hear Gordon Cooper, who was serving as the "capcom," the capsule communicator, in the blockhouse near the launch pad, and Deke Slayton, who would be the capcom in the flight control center during the launch itself.