fadeaway

[ feyd-uh-wey ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

an act or instance of fading away.
Baseball. screwball ( def 2 ).
Baseball. a slide made by a base runner to one side of the base, with one leg bent and stretched back to catch hold of the base.
Basketball. a jump shot made while the player is falling away from the basket.

1905–10, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase fade away

She’s able to shoot a little bit of a fadeaway at times when she needs to get a shot up over the defender.

She capped a 12-2 run to close the first quarter with a fadeaway from the left wing.

Antetokounmpo settled for a difficult fadeaway out of the post on the group’s first possession and missed badly.

There’s the power drive as he attacks the basket, but as soon as defenders commit, Beal can stop on a dime for a step-back or fadeaway jumper.

You had everything—speed, curves, control, and that old fadeaway of yours was working like a charm.

With the next batter Bert made unsparing use of his fadeaway, and struck him out with little trouble.

Hughson, cool as an iceberg, brought his fadeaway into play and whiffed the next man up.

"Anyway, William, you might tell us whether you are going to use a straight ball or a curve and the fadeaway," pleaded Stanley.

Carson had been practicing on what he called a fadeaway ball, and now he thought this would be just the right thing to offer Sam.

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