hockey stick
(poker) A playing card with the rank of seven.
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(poker) A playing card with the rank of seven.
They made it the focus of their attacks, hoping that by demolishing the hockey stick graph they would destroy the credibility of climate scientists and the notion of global warming as a phenomenon caused by human activity.
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(British, field hockey) A stick used to handle the ball in field hockey, having a flat-faced hook at the end.
One of the pillars of the case for man-made global warming is a graph nicknamed the hockey stick. It's a reconstruction of temperatures over the past 1,000 years based on records captured in tree rings, corals and other markers. The stic…
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(North America, ice hockey) A stick used to handle the puck in ice hockey, having a flat, angled blade at the end.
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.
“ended up picking up a hockey stick at the thrift store yesterday because i am a very normal adult who became angry at how bullshit my own team was for playoffs and now i need to pretend i know what im doing :U”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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