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bully-off

a method by which a game is restarted after a stoppage. Two opposing players stand with the ball between them and alternately strike their sticks together and against the ground three times before trying to hit the ball

Often shortened to: bully
Compare face-offEtymology: 19th Century: perhaps from bully scrum in Eton football; of unknown origin

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