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noun
An informal game of pickup hockey played with minimal equipment: skates, sticks and a puck or ball.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, uncountable
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noun
Street hockey.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, uncountable
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noun
Hockey.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, informal, uncountable
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noun
A hockey-like game played by American Indians.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, uncountable
Topics: anthropology, human-sciences, sciences
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noun
Moonshine. (illegal alcohol)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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verb
To climb in an awkward manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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noun
a simple version of hockey played by children on the streets (or on ice or on a field) using a ball or can as the puck
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: shinney
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: field hockey, hockey
verb
climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, skin, struggle, sputter
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: climb
History
Variation of shinty.
From shin (noun) + -y.
