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Date: 1800-1900
Language: English dialect
Origin: puck 'to hit', from POKE1

puck

 noun
     
puck
Related topics: Other Sports
puck [countable]
DSO a hard flat circular piece of rubber that you hit with the stick in the game of ice hockey
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