Puck
Appearance
Puck may refer to:
Objects
[edit]- Hockey puck, either an open or closed disk used in ice hockey and floor hockey serving the same function a ball does in ball games.
- Floor hockey puck, a disk, either open or closed, made from synthetic materials and designed for use on dry floors serving the same function a ball does in ball games
- Puck (digitizer), a graphics tablet accessory
- Puck, the coffee grounds inside an espresso machine portafilter
- Puck, an injection-molded carrier that stabilizes products on a conveyor line
- Shaving soap, typically refers to a hard soap that is whipped into a lather using a shaving brush
- Puck or sometimes "puck adapter" an adapter put in the large hole of a 45 rpm single so that it could be played on the thinner type of spindle.
Characters
[edit]- Puck (folklore), a trickster character of folk tales
- Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream), a character from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Puck, from the Faeries CBS TV special
- Puck, from the Gargoyles animated series
- Puck, the eponymous character from Rudyard Kipling's book Puck of Pook's Hill and its sequel
- Puck, from The Sandman series of comic books
- Puck, from The Sisters Grimm series of novels
- Puck (Marvel Comics), the codename of two Marvel characters
- Puck (Glee), from the musical comedy-drama Glee
- Puck (Love Birds), youngest penguin from the musical Love Birds
- Peter Puck, a hockey-puck-shaped cartoon character
- Puck, a character from the Berserk manga and anime series
- Puck (Re:Zero), a character in the light novel series Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World
- Puck, a non-playable character in the video game, Final Fantasy IX
- Puck, a playable character in the video game, Dota 2
- Baron Puck, in the 1867 opéra bouffe La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein
- Prince Puck, in the 2016 comic book series Empress from Icon Comics
Literature
[edit]- Puck (magazine), an 1871–1918 humor publication
- Puck (literary magazine), a 1990s publication
- Puck (media company), a digital media company launched in 2021
- Puck, a novel by Ouida
Places
[edit]- Puck County, Poland
- Puck, Poland, a town and the county seat
- Gmina Puck, a gmina or administrative division
- Puck railway station
- Puck (moon), a moon of Uranus
- Bay of Puck, in the Baltic Sea
Other uses
[edit]- Puck (name), including a list of people with the name
- Puck (opera), an opéra-féerique which premiered in 1949
- Puck Building, a Manhattan landmark
- Puck Fair, an Irish festival
- Puck App, a mobile application that allows hockey players to quickly find and rent a hockey goalie
- Puck puzzle, a combination puzzle invented in 1980 by Hungarian physicist András Végh
- Puck Man, the original name for the arcade game Pac-Man
- Puck (fish), a genus of dreamer deep-water fish