In Popular Culture
- Ice hockey sticks and pucks have been used as a symbol and main motif in different commemorative coins. A recent sample was the Finnish Ice Hockey World Championships 2003 commemorative coin, minted in 2003, celebrating the event. On the reverse, three ice hockey sticks with a puck can be seen.
- The phrase "dumb as a hockey puck" is a common idiom.
- "What are you lookin' at, ya hockey puck?!", became one of the most famous stock insult phrases of comedian Don "Mr. Warmth" Rickles. Rickles voiced Mr. Potato Head in the movie Toy Story, and when Mr. Potato head shouts at Hamm for being uncultured he uses the phrase when speaking to a hockey puck character.
- The mouse-like pointing device used with some graphics tablets and with digitizer hardware for CAD or desktop publishing software is also called a puck, and "hockey puck" is a nickname for the small, round mouse included with the original Apple iMac.
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