jump shot

noun Basketball.

a shot with one or both hands in which a player leaps into the air and shoots the ball at the basket at the moment of reaching the highest point of the leap.

Origin of jump shot

First recorded in 1905–10

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British Dictionary definitions for jump shot

jump shot

noun

basketball a shot at the basket made by a player releasing the ball at the highest point of a leap

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