See Also:

hockey (iou) and SS (oh)


hockey (iou)



Hockey noun1. E16.
[Origin unkn.]
I.
An outdoor team game played with sticks hooked at one end with which the players drive a ball towards goals at opposite ends of the field. Also more fully (esp. in N. America to distinguish it from sense 2) field Hockey E16.
A variant of this game played on ice in skates with sticks hooked or (now usu.) angled at one end and a rubber disc or puck. Also more fully (esp. outside N. America to distinguish it from sense 1) ice Hockey. L19.
II.
A stick or club used in Hockey. Chiefly US. M19.
Comb.: Hockey-stick a stick hooked or angled at one end, used in Hockey.
hockeyist noun (N. Amer.) a person who plays ice Hockey L19.

SS (oh)



the abbreviation of steamship
::aboard the SS Great Britain
BrE the written abbreviation of saints
::statues of SS Augustine and Thomas