I have a Page-A-Day Desk Calendar "365 New Words a Year" and the word of the day for January 14, 2006 was DEKE. 1) To fake (an opponent) out of position (as in ice hockey)
2) to deke an opponent *With a quick zigzag move, Pat deked the two remaining defensemen and was left one-on-one with the goalie.

Did you know : "Deke" originated as a shortened form of "decoy" and was used in that sense by Ernest Hemingway who referred to hunting decoys in his 1950 novel "Across the River and into the Trees" ("I offered to put the dekes out with him".) In the 1960s, it began appearing in ice hockey contexts in Canadian print as a noun as well as a verb ("to fake out of position"). Today, "deke" has scored in many other sports, including baseball, basketball, and football. It has also checked its way into more general usage, referring to deceptive or evasive moves or actions, but this general application occurs too rarely to merit its own sense in the dictionary. Class is over.


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