Puck Explained

Puck may refer to:

Objects

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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