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Michigan vs Wolverine - What's the difference?

michigan | wolverine |

As nouns the difference between michigan and wolverine

is that michigan is a deke consisting of lifting the puck with the stick and throwing it under the top corner of the goal, while skating behind the net while wolverine is a solitary, fierce member of the weasel family, Gulo gulo.

As a proper noun Michigan

is a {{USstate}} Capital: Lansing. Largest city: Detroit.

michigan

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A (USstate) Capital: Lansing. Largest city: Detroit.
  • , one of the Great Lakes

    • Derived terms

    * MI * Michigander * Michiganian

    See also

    *

    External links

    * (wikipedia "Michigan")

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (ice hockey) A deke consisting of lifting the puck with the stick and throwing it under the top corner of the goal, while skating behind the net.

    • wolverine

    English

    Alternative forms

    * wolverene

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A solitary, fierce member of the weasel family, Gulo gulo .
  • * 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter IV
  • *:“Wish I'd been more polite to that girl,” the sheriff remarked regretfully. “ I ain't had a bite to eat since four o'clock this morning, and I'm hungry as a wolverine . … I know she'd have give me another drink of that old moonshine she has.”
  • # A male wolverine, (a female wolverine being called an angeline).

    • Synonyms

    * (animal) Gulo gulo , carcajou, skunk bear, glutton, quickhatch

    See also

    * (wikipedia) * (Gulo gulo)