Wiktionary
n. 1 (context North America ice hockey English) A stick used to handle the puck in ice hockey, having a flat, angled blade at the end. 2 (context British field hockey English) A stick used to handle the ball in field hockey, having a flat-faced hook at the end. 3 (context slang English) A playing card with the rank of seven. 4 (context slang English) A statistical trend in a graph of survey data in which most of the results are flat and then suddenly peaks in a steep near-vertical direction.
WordNet
n. sports implement consisting of a stick used by hockey players to move the puck
Wikipedia
A hockey stick is a piece of equipment used in field hockey, ice hockey , roller hockey or underwater hockey to move the ball or puck.
A hockey stick is:
- a stick used to propel the ball or puck in hockey. In particular:
- Field hockey stick, used to propel the ball in field hockey
- Ice hockey stick, used to propel the puck in ice hockey
- something shaped like an ice hockey stick
- Saab hockey stick, styling cue on Saab cars
- Hockey stick graphs present the global or hemispherical mean temperature record of the past 1000 years
- Hockey stick controversy about the "hockey stick" graph which shows a sharp recent rise in global temperature
- a Hockey Stick diagram is a diagram that shows the payoff of a call option or a put option with respect to the price of the underlying asset.
- a hockey stick procedure turn is the standard way to reverse direction during an instrument landing in aviation.
- Other uses:
- the name of a step in Cha-cha-cha.
Usage examples of "hockey stick".
With her beady eyes, sharp teeth, and tapering snout, she stood leaning on her hockey stick, right foot crossed over left ankle.
Her entire existence by then was founded on physical well-being, and she was often frightened in the presence of the old woman, even sickened when a sheet or hem slipped away and she caught sight of her grandmother's legs wasted to the width of a hockey stick.
The rear verandah, built of untreated 2x4's, has quietly rotted away, and the sliding door in the kitchen has been braced shut with a hockey stick to prevent the unwary from straying into the suburban abyss.
Other projects, like the hockey stick sideline, were more profitable.
She picked up a hockey stick, tested its heft, and abandoned it for a baseball bat.
The hockey stick had been sharpened on one end and with the strength of both men leaning on it, it went through jacket and uniform and bone and flesh and out into toe ground.
If you'd put away your hockey stick long enough maybe you'd notice that he looks whiter than his sheets!
She had a new lacrosse stick and a new hockey stick, for both games were played at Whyteleafe.
Once, they'd even been attacked by an ex-NHL defenseman swinging a hockey stick with enraged abandon.
The hockey stick accidentally flew out of her hand and into the poor girl's face.