hockeyless

hockeyless

English

Etymology

hockey +‎ -less

Adjective

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.