hockey stick en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Meanings
- (Canada, US) A stick used to handle the puck in ice hockey, having a flat, angled blade at the end.
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(UK, qualifier:field hockey) A stick used to handle the ball in field hockey, having a flat-faced hook at the end.
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.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 184:
- A playing card with the rank of seven.
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(informal) A statistical trend in a graph of survey data in which most of the results are flat and then the graph suddenly peaks in a steep near-vertical direction.
“That said, we continue to remain cautious of pie-in-the-sky forecasts that see this hockey stick continuing indefinitely,” Nathanson added[…].
2024 April 18, Callum Jones, quoting Michael Nathanson, “Netflix profits surge as streaming service adds 9.3m subscribers in latest quarter”, in The Guardian, →ISSN: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.
2006 March 15, Fred Pearce, “Climate: The great hockey stick debate”, in New Scientist: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.
2005 February 14, Antonio Regalado, “In Climate Debate, The 'Hockey Stick' Leads to a Face-Off”, in Wall Street Journal, →ISSN:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| hockey sticks | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
hockey stick curve · schtick · aitch ee double hockey sticks · HE-double-hockey-sticks · jolly-hockey-sticks
Translations (72)
ca estic (instrument used in field hockey) · nb hockeykølle (instrument used in ice hockey) · szl kryka (instrument used in ice hockey) · ka ჰოკეის ყვანჭი (instrument used in field hockey) · yi האָקישטאָק (instrument used in ice hockey) · fr bâton de hockey (instrument used in field hockey) · cs hokejka (instrument used in ice hockey) · ka ბალახის ჰოკეის ყვანჭი (instrument used in field hockey) · pl kij hokejowy (instrument used in field hockey) · yi האָקיישטעקן (instrument used in field hockey) · fr bâton de hockey (instrument used in ice hockey) · et hokikepp (instrument used in ice hockey) · uk клю́чка (instrument used in ice hockey) · sv klubba (instrument used in ice hockey) · pt estique (instrument used in field hockey) · pt aléu (instrument used in field hockey) · hi हॉकी डंडी (instrument used in ice hockey) · ru клю́шка (instrument used in field hockey) · nn hockeykølle (instrument used in field hockey) · sv hockeyklubba (instrument used in ice hockey) · hu hokiütő (instrument used in ice hockey) · sv klubba (instrument used in field hockey) · hy փայտիկ (instrument used in ice hockey) · nn hockeykølle (instrument used in ice hockey) · ko 스틱 (instrument used in ice hockey) · pt aléu (instrument used in ice hockey) · cs hůl (instrument used in ice hockey) · be клю́шка (instrument used in ice hockey) · ka ჰოკეის ყვანჭი (instrument used in ice hockey) · pt stique (instrument used in field hockey) · tt кәшәкә (instrument used in ice hockey) · fi jääkiekkomaila (instrument used in ice hockey) · nl hockeystick (instrument used in field hockey) · ka ყინულის ჰოკეის ყვანჭი (instrument used in ice hockey) · yi האָקיישטאָק (instrument used in ice hockey) · es palo de hockey (instrument used in ice hockey) · ja スティック (instrument used in ice hockey) · yi האָקיישטאָק (instrument used in field hockey) · hy մական (instrument used in ice hockey) · ar عَصًا (instrument used in ice hockey) · hi हॉकी डंडी (instrument used in field hockey) · yi האָקישטעקן (instrument used in ice hockey) · ca estic (instrument used in ice hockey) · cmn 曲棍球棒 (instrument used in field hockey) · nb hockeykølle (instrument used in field hockey) · fr crosse (instrument used in ice hockey) · yi האָקישטעקן (instrument used in field hockey) · cs hokejka (instrument used in field hockey) · hi हॉकी स्टिक (instrument used in field hockey) · it bastone da hockey su prato (instrument used in field hockey) · hi हॉकी स्टिक (instrument used in ice hockey) · uk клю́чка (instrument used in field hockey) · nb ishockeykølle (instrument used in ice hockey) · cs hůl (instrument used in field hockey) · et kepp (instrument used in ice hockey) · sv landhockeyklubba (instrument used in field hockey) · pl kij (instrument used in ice hockey) · ka ყვანჭი (instrument used in ice hockey) · de Hockeyschläger (instrument used in field hockey) · pt stique (instrument used in ice hockey) · yi האָקישטאָק (instrument used in field hockey) · ca pal (instrument used in field hockey) · yi האָקיישטעקן (instrument used in ice hockey) · ca pal (instrument used in ice hockey) · it bastone da hockey su ghiaccio (instrument used in ice hockey) · nn ishockeykølle (instrument used in ice hockey) · cmn 冰球棒 (instrument used in ice hockey) · ru клю́шка (instrument used in ice hockey) · pt estique (instrument used in ice hockey) · pl kij hokejowy (instrument used in ice hockey) · de Hockeyschläger (instrument used in ice hockey) · fi maahockeymaila (instrument used in field hockey)