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GAME MISCONDUCT
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(ice hockey) a penalty that suspends a player for the remainder of a game (but allows the team to send in a substitute for the suspended player)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("game misconduct" is a kind of...):
penalty ((games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game)
Domain category:
hockey; hockey game; ice hockey (a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled hockey sticks)