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puck-handling

puck-handling noun: the ability to control the puck; stickhandling.

Noun

puck-handling (uncountable)

  1. The ability to control the puck; stickhandling.
    • Dazzling puck handling by the visitors, but college men break up swift attacks. [headline]1921 March 12, Boston Daily Globe, page 6
    • […] Flyers dominated the game with superior skating, checking, passing and puck-handling.1965 May 15, Kingston Whig-Standard, page 9

Forms of puck-handling

alternative formpuck handling
alternative formpuckhandling

Origin of puck-handling

1921, puck + handling.

Questions about puck-handling

What does puck-handling mean?
Puck-handling means the ability to control the puck; stickhandling.
What part of speech is puck-handling?
Puck-handling is a noun.

Words near puck-handling in the dictionary

  1. puck palace
  2. puck palaces
  3. puck scramble
  4. puck-bunnies
  5. puck-bunny
  6. puck-handling
  7. puck-out
  8. pucka
  9. pucka fever
  10. puckal
  11. puckalie

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