fadeaway

[feyd-uh-wey]

noun

1. an act or instance of fading away.

2. Baseball.,  screwball.

3. 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.

4. Basketball.,  a jump shot made while the player is falling away from the basket.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fadeaway¹

1905–10, noun use of verb phrase fade away

Example Sentences

On the very next possession, Flagg scored on a fadeaway over James, drawing more cheers as Flagg slapped hands with his teammates on the bench.

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After a stop, he took a step closer to the Atlanta bench, got back to almost that same spot, spun and swished another fadeaway, running past the Hawks as their coach, Quin Snyder, frustratingly called a timeout to try to put a stop to it.

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Collins, in a 20-point effort, made a tougher-than-nails fadeaway shot to tie the game with four seconds left to force overtime.

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By the midpoint of the first half, he had scored amid a triple team in the paint, pump-faked a defender out of the way before burying an open jumper and added a fadeaway jumper in the lane.

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The Sparks were able to get within one point, but a late sequence that consisted of a fadeaway basket from Skylar Diggins-Smith and a Crystal Dangerfield turnover that led to a fastbreak layup from former longtime Sparks forward Nneka Ogwumike stretched the Storm’s lead to five points with under two minutes to go.

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