Meaning of Puck | Babel Free

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.

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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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