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Objects

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Hockey puck A hockey puck is either an open or closed disk used in a variety of sports and games. There are designs made for use on an ice surface, such as in ice hockey, and others for the different variants of floor hockey which includes the wheeled skat ...
, the cylinder which is hit, in ice hockey and related games, analogously to the ball hit in field hockey * 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 A conveyor system is a common piece of mechanical handling equipment that moves materials from one location to another. Conveyors are especially useful in applications involving the transport of heavy or bulky materials. Conveyor systems allow ...
line * Shaving puck, another name for shaving soap * Urinal puck, another name for a
urinal deodorizer block Urinal deodorizer blocks (commonly known as urinal cakes, urinal cookies, urinal biscuits (or jocularly piscuits), urinal donuts, toilet lollies, trough lollies, urinal pucks, toilet pucks, or urinal peons (alternately urinal pee-ons)) are small ...


Characters

* Puck (folklore), a trickster character of folk tales ** lists eponymous derivatives, including *** Puck (''A Midsummer Night's Dream''), a character from Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' * 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 is a 2000 role-playing video game developed and published by Square (video game company), Square for the PlayStation (console), PlayStation video game console. It is the ninth game in the main ''Final Fantasy'' series. The plot focuses on a wa ...
'' * Puck, a playable character in the video game, ''
Dota 2 ''Dota 2'' is a 2013 multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game by Valve Corporation, Valve. The game is a sequel to ''Defense of the Ancients'' (''DotA''), a community-created Mod (video gaming), mod for Blizzard Entertainment's ''War ...
'' * Baron Puck, in the 1867 opéra bouffe '' La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein'' * Prince Puck, in the 2016 comic book series ''Empress'' from Icon Comics * Puck, a
mouse A mouse (: mice) is a small rodent. Characteristically, mice are known to have a pointed snout, small rounded ears, a body-length scaly tail, and a high breeding rate. The best known mouse species is the common house mouse (''Mus musculus'' ...
and a background character in the animated franchise from Hallmark Media's,
Hoops & Yoyo Hoops & Yoyo (stylized as hoops&yoyo) was an animated franchise by Hallmark Cards that centered around the titular pair of hyperactive and rambunctious characters: a pink cat and a green bunny. History Hallmark artist Bob Holt was assigned to ...


Literature & media

* ''Puck'' (magazine), an 1871–1918 humor publication * ''Puck'' (literary magazine), a 1990s publication *
Puck (media company) ''Puck'' is an American digital media company founded in 2021. ''Pucks coverage aims to cover the 'four centers of power' in the United States: Silicon Valley, Hollywood, Washington, D.C. and Wall Street. Its journalists include Matthew Bel ...
, a digital media company launched in 2021 * ''Puck'', a novel by Ouida


Places

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Puck County __NOTOC__ Puck County (, ) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland, on the Baltic coast. The ''powiat'' of this name existed in the history of Poland, since the times of th ...
, Poland **
Puck, Poland Puck (, formerly ) is a town in northern Poland with 11,350 inhabitants. It is in Gdańsk Pomerania on the south coast of the Baltic Sea (Bay of Puck) and part of Kashubia with many Kashubian language, Kashubian speakers in the town. Previously in ...
, a town and the county seat **
Gmina Puck __NOTOC__ Gmina Puck is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Puck County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Its seat is the town of Puck, although the town is not part of the territory of the gmina. The gmina covers an area of , a ...
, a ''gmina'' or administrative division ** Puck railway station * Puck (moon), a moon of Uranus * Bay of Puck, in the Baltic Sea


Other uses

* Puck (name), including a list of people with the name * ''Puck'' (opera), an opéra-féerique which premiered in 1949 *
Puck Building The Puck Building is a mixed-use building at 295–309 Lafayette Street in the SoHo, Manhattan, SoHo and Nolita neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S. The building was designed by Albert Wagner (architect), Albert Wagner i ...
, 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, a cheese brand by
Arla Foods Arla Foods is a Danish-Swedish multinational co-operative based in Viby, Denmark. It is the fifth biggest dairy company in the world and the largest producer of dairy products in Scandinavia and United Kingdom. Arla Foods was formed as the re ...
* Puck Man, the original name for the arcade game
Pac-Man ''Pac-Man,'' originally called in Japan, is a 1980 maze video game developed and published by Namco for arcades. In North America, the game was released by Midway Manufacturing as part of its licensing agreement with Namco America. The pla ...
* ''Puck'' (fish), a genus of dreamer deep-water fish {{disambiguation, geo