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shuttlecock
(ʃʌtəlkɒk)
Word forms: plural shuttlecocks
countable noun
A shuttlecock is the small object that you hit over the net in a game of badminton. It is rounded at one end and has real or artificial feathers fixed in the other end.
shuttlecock in British English
(ˈʃʌtəlˌkɒk)
noun
1.
a light cone consisting of a cork stub with feathered flights, struck to and fro in badminton and battledore
Often shortened to: shuttle2.
anything moved to and fro, as in an argument
verb
3.
to move or cause to move to and fro, like a shuttlecock
Word origin
C16: from shuttle + cock1shuttlecock in American English
(ˈʃʌtəlˌkɑk)
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
see also battledore verb transitive, verb intransitive
3.
to go, send, or bandy back and forth
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British English: shuttlecock /ˈʃʌtlˌkɒk/ NOUN
A shuttlecock is the small object that you hit over the net in a game of badminton.
- American English: shuttlecock
- Arabic: كُرَةُ الرِّيشَة
- Brazilian Portuguese: peteca
- Chinese: 羽毛球
- Croatian: loptica za bedminton
- Czech: badmintonový míček
- Danish: fjerbold
- Dutch: shuttle
- European Spanish: plumilla
- Finnish: sulkapallo
- French: volant badminton
- German: Federball
- Greek: μπαλάκι του μπάντμιντον
- Italian: volano
- Japanese: バドミントンのシャトル
- Korean: 배드민턴 공
- Norwegian: badmintonball
- Polish: lotka
- European Portuguese: volante de badminton
- Romanian: fluturașbadminton
- Russian: волан
- Latin American Spanish: plumilla
- Swedish: badmintonboll
- Thai: ลูกขนไก่
- Turkish: badminton topu
- Ukrainian: волан
- Vietnamese: quả cầu lông
Chinese translation of 'shuttlecock'
shuttlecock
(ˈʃʌtlkɔk) (Badminton)
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羽毛球
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