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broomball
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a game played, usually, on a hockey rink, the players, with or without skates, having corn brooms with which to advance a volleyball toward the opposing team's goal.
Quotations
1933
. . . the display department team won the broom ball game. . . .
1955
It seems that Brooklyn [N.S.] has been playing Broom Ball for a number of years. . . .
1963
Preceding the hockey game . . . will be a broomball contest.