a line graph that stays relatively flat for most of its length then spikes upward abruptly near its end: first used to describe the controversial global warming graph associated with climategate.

1. A stick used to hit a hockey puck in the game of Hockey.

2. A Canadian Sex Act -- The only thing the man wears is Ice Skates on his feet, while the girl performs a frosty mitten job, naked, while the man hold her legs, and caries her around, while motor boating her chest.

A hockey stick is comprised of a blade, a small curve, and a long shaft. A hockey stick chart displays data low-level activity (y-axis) over a short period of time (x-axis), then a sudden bend indicative of an inflection point, and finally a long and straight rise at a steep angle.

A greasy Italian with a bent dick.

A dick crooked like the end of a hockey stick.

A Hockey Stick Gift is a gift given another that is really a present that the giver wants for him/herself.... typically given to another family member. Not unlike a "Chipmunck Gift," but one that is really coveted by the giver.

To have a "hockey stick moment" is what happens when the compound consequences of your past bad decisions come down to bear on your life in catastrophic manner. A hockey stick is the shape that a representation graph makes when growth happens exponentially instead of just regularly or arithmetically.