hockey stick

collocation in English

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hockey
noun[U]
uk
/ˈhɒk.i/us
/ˈhɑː.ki/
UK
a game played on a sports field between two teams of eleven players who each have a curved stick with which they try to put a small, hard ball into the other ...
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stick
noun
uk
/stɪk/us
/stɪk/
a thin piece of wood or ...
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On a spectrogram, his appears as ahockeystickshape.
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Hinge functions are also calledhockeystickfunctions.
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Indeed, many experts believe that the notorioushockeystick-shaped exponential global warming curve is, in reality, a graphic fabrication.
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The team name is at the top above a superimposedhockeystick.
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The result was the unveiling of a logo depicting a fisherman holding ahockeystick.
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My answer is, so can ahockeystick, but we don't stop building them....
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The oldest knownhockeystickwas made between 1852 and 1856.
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It is recognizable by thehockeystickside stripe, rear louvers and chin spoiler.
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The primary logo was a stylizedhockeystick-wielding coyote in a kachina-inspired style.
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The latter extended back 1,000 years and was nicknamed thehockeystickgraph.
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It was not until high school that she picked up her first fieldhockeystick.
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The echolocation calls are singlehockeystickcalls at a higher repetition rate.
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Reconstructions using different statistical methods had produced similarhockeystickgraphs.
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In the brawl, a burninghockeystickmade contact with dumped toxic waste, blowing everything up.
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The tip of the abdomen is bent up giving it ahockeystickappearance.
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The lower the flex number on ahockeystick, the more bend the stick creates.
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This was sometimes unofficially referred to as thehockeysticklivery.
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A warning will be issued if a player has theirhockeystickabove waist level.
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It is now illegal for anyhockeystickto have a bow height that exceeds 25 mm.
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I learned how to make my ownhockeystick, but with skates it was a much more difficult problem.
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He took a trainer's white towel and held it on ahockeystick, as if to wave a white flag.
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The puck was activated when it was dropped by the ref or struck by ahockeystick.
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There were only a handful of major developments inhockeysticktechnology between the 1920s and the 2000s.
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