hockey

Etymology 1

Unknown, 16th century, possibly related to hook due to the curvature of the stick.

noun

1. (Commonwealth) Field hockey, a team sport played on a pitch on solid ground where players have to hit a ball into a net using a hockey stick.
2. (Canada, US) Ice hockey, a game on ice in which two teams of six players skate and try to score by shooting a puck into the opposing team's net, using their sticks.
3. A variation of hockey, such as roller hockey, street hockey, shinny, or ball hockey.

Etymology 2

noun

1. (US, slang) Faeces, excrement.
   “I thought she'd just gone to pee but I reckon she must be making hockey too.” 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug
   My anger surged back a pace. “Harry Boone is a lickspittle, butt kissing, hunk of horse hockey,” I said precisely. 2014, Gwen Hunter, Bloodstone

Etymology 3

See oche.

noun

1. (darts, dated) Alternative form of oche.
   As has been mentioned, Darts of to-day is essentially a "public-house game," and in pretty nearly every inn, club, or institute where it has a footing (and in which has it not!) will be found minor variations in play and often games that are peculiar to the locality or even to the "school" itself. […] And in this domestic circle, at all events, it is thought that this set of Rules will prove a useful guide when taken in conjunction with what has already been said as regards the board, its position, the hockey-line, etc. 1950, Edmond Hoyle, Lawrence H. Dawson, “Darts”, in Hoyle’s Games Modernized, 20th edition, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, →OCLC; republished as The Complete Hoyle’s Games (Wordsworth Reference), Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 1994, page 457
   Henry Lewis's body was tense, taut, his toes against the hockey, his right arm raised, his left eye half-closed. With grim intensity, backed by years of practice and experience, he sighted along the steel point, drew his arm back—and let the dart fly. 1977, Harry Harrison, chapter 22, in Skyfall, [London]: Hamlyn Publishing Group, →OCLC
   Small bars would tend to produce short hockeys; the tiny fishing pubs of Yarmouth gave rise to 6ft marks […] 1985, Keith Turner, Darts, 1st Perennial Library edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, page 22