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shuttlecock definition

shuttle·cock (-käk′)

noun

  1. in badminton or other similar games, a rounded piece of cork having a flat end stuck with feathers or, now, a piece of plastic formed to resemble this: it is struck back and forth across a net with rackets or paddles
  2. the game of battledore and shuttlecock

transitive verb, intransitive verb

to go, send, or bandy back and forth

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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