Shuttlecock Definition

shŭtl-kŏk
shuttlecocks
noun
shuttlecocks
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.
Webster's New World
The game of battledore and shuttlecock.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb
To go, send, or bandy back and forth.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Shuttlecock

Noun

Singular:
shuttlecock
Plural:
shuttlecocks

Origin of Shuttlecock

  • shuttle (from the back-and-forth sense of the word originating with loom weaving) + cock (from resemblance to a male bird's plume of tail feathers). Attested from 1522.

    From Wiktionary

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