Puck

Definitions

1. A mischievous sprite in Celtic mythology and English folklore.
2. A mischievous or hostile spirit.
   archaic
3. A hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game.
4. billy goat
   Ireland
5. A body position between the pike and tuck positions, with knees slightly bent and folded in; open tuck.
6. One of the satellites of the planet Uranus.
7. The mischievous fairy-like creature from English folklore, like Puck from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
8. An object shaped like a puck.
   Canada
9. A pointing device with a crosshair.
10. A penalty shot.

Equivalents

Examples

“William Tyndale allotted this character a role, of leading nocturnal travellers astray as the puck had been said to do since Anglo-Saxon times and the goblin since the later medieval period.”

“In hockey a flat piece of rubber, say⟳ four inches long by three wide and about an inch thick, called a ‘puck’, is used.”

“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.”

“He reaches into the urinal and picks up the puck. He then walk⟳ over to the sink⟳ and replaces a bar of soap with the urinal puck.”

“The puck position is allowed during competitions when performing multi-twisting multiple somersaults.”

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