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bully-off

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bully-off Hockey
n
(Team Sports / Hockey (Field & Ice)) a method by which a game is restarted after a stoppage. Two opposing players stand with the ball between them and alternately strike their sticks together and against the ground three times before trying to hit the ball
vb bully off
(Team Sports / Hockey (Field & Ice)) (intr, adverb) to restart play after a stoppage with a bully-off Often shortened to bully Compare face-off
[perhaps from bully scrum in Eton football; of unknown origin]
Translations
bully-off
n (Hockey) → Bully nt


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