hockeyless

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

hockey +‎ -less

Adjective[edit]

hockeyless (not comparable)

  1. without hockey.
    • 2007, John Poch, Chad Davidson, Hockey Haiku: The Essential Collection, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN:
      Halfway through last year, hockeyless, I lost it. Hell, the season on ice.
    • 2008, Duncan McDowall, The Sum of the Satisfactions: Canada in the Age of National Accounting, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, →ISBN:
      Indeed, when the National Hockey League locked out its players in the fall of 2004, plunging Canadians into a bleak hockeyless winter, the newspapers screamed: “Hockey lockout slashes GDP, economic growth put on ice.”
    • 2014, Stephen Smith, Puckstruck: Distracted, Delighted and Distressed by Canada's Hockey Obsession, Greystone Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 396:
      With many recent professional lockouts to help us, the dire warnings do open up just enough of a crack for our imaginations to slip through and conjure an altogether hockeyless Canada.