English

Noun

hockey stick ‎(plural hockey sticks)

1. (Canada, US, ice hockey) A stick used to handle the puck in ice hockey, having a flat, angled blade at the end.
2. (Britain, field hockey) A stick used to handle the ball in field hockey, having a flat-faced hook at the end.
3. (slang) A playing card with the rank of seven.
4. (slang) 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.

Derived terms

• HE-double-hockey-sticks‎
• jolly-hockey-sticks

Translations

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523

See also

• HE-double-hockey-sticks