hockey

noun4

1. •
   any of several team sports in which players try to send a ball or a puck into a goal by hitting it with a stick
2. •
   (Commonwealth) Field hockey, a team sport played on a pitch on solid ground where players have to hit a ball into a net using a hockey stick.

   • He helped his team beat the opponent at hockey 11-9 in a high-scoring match.
3. •
   (US, Canada) Ice hockey, a game on ice in which two teams of six players skate and try to score by shooting a puck into the opposing team's net, using their sticks.

   • US stadiums are packed in the winter to see ice hockey.
4. •
   (US, slang) Feces, excrement.

   • “I thought she'd just gone to pee but I reckon she must be making hockey too.” — 1970