shuttlecock

Meanings

Noun

• A lightweight object that is conical in shape with a cork or rubber-covered nose, used in badminton the way a ball is used in other racquet games.
• The game of badminton.

Verb

• To move rapidly back and forth
• To send or toss back and forth; to bandy

Origin

• From shuttle (from the back-and-forth sense of the word originating with loom weaving) + cock (from resemblance to a male bird's plume of tail feathers).