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)

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