DCHP-2

slapshot slap shot slap-shot DCHP-2 (July 2016)

• 1 n. — Hockey

  a powerful shot of the puck. See video below (slapshot goal by PK Subban).

  Type: 4. Culturally Significant — A slapshot is a type of shot in use since the early days of the sport (see the 1934 quotation). It is performed by hitting the puck at about the midpoint of a very wide rotation arc. The wide stick movement alerts the goaltender, so that the primary asset of the shot lies in its force, which is often described with modifiers such as "blazing" (see the 1934 quotation) or verbs like "hammered" (see the 1993 quotation). Like the more precise but much less powerful wrist shot, the slapshot, which is sometimes called "slapper", is a basic hockey shot.

  See also: hockey  puck  one-timer  wrist shot  backhander  

• 2 v. — Hockey, past tense of to slapshoot, which itself is very rare

  to forcefully hit the puck towards the net; performing a slapshot.

  Type: 4. Culturally Significant — Though less common than the noun form, slapshot is occasionally used as a verb (see quotations).