puck

noun

1. 1

   archaicA mischievous or hostile spirit.

   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.

2. 2

   The mischievous fairy-like creature from English folklore, like Puck from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

verb

1. 1

   To hit, strike.

noun

1. 1

   A hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game.

   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.

2. 2

   An object shaped like a puck.

   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.

3. 3

   A pointing device with a crosshair.

4. 4

   A penalty shot.

noun

1. 1

   billy goat

noun

1. 1

   A body position between the pike and tuck positions, with knees slightly bent and folded in; open tuck.

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

Forms

plural

pucks

past tense

pucked

past participle

pucked

present participle

pucking

third person singular

pucks