Wiktionary
n. (context ice hockey English) A small black flat roundel of hardened rubber used as a playing piece in ice hockey to score points by moving the puck into the opponent's goal net.
WordNet
n. a vulcanized rubber disk 3 inches in diameter that is used instead of a ball in ice hockey [syn: puck]
Wikipedia
A hockey puck is a disk made of vulcanized rubber that serves the same functions in various games as a ball does in ball games. The best-known use of pucks is in ice hockey, a major international sport.
Usage examples of "hockey puck".
What Ruth liked about the photograph is that Thomas is grinning widely, a hockey puck gripped in his teeth.
It was smaller than a hockey puck, featureless but for a mounting nipple.
Luna asked, examining the hockey puck that was supposed to have been a hamburger patty.
He went to it and opened the video storage drawer below the VCR but it was empty except for a round metal object the size of a hockey puck.
It was as smooth a ride, she thought, as if she was a beetle riding a hockey puck over damp ice.
A man in black tie and morning coat slammed his cellular phone on to the floor in frustration and it slid across the polished stone like a hockey puck.
A cold McDonald's hamburger is halfway between a jelly doughnut and a hockey puck, but the nine-dollar bourbon helped.
And Chub, firing a round into the center of the turtle's shell, sending it skidding like a tiny green hockey puck across the floor, bouncing off walls and corners.
Clay-red, with a hard plastic casing and a rubber gasket bearing numbers and Russian Cyrillic lettering, the OTK- I 0 pressure-detonated mine was no larger than a hockey puck, yet powerful enough to blow the foot or leg off the person who stepped on it and disable anyone else within a ten-yard radius of the explosion.
But a couple of other kids had found her magic book and started kicking it around, making it slide back and forth across the floor like a hockey puck.