jump shot

noun

Basketball.

1. 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.

jump shot

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of jump shot¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

The workouts wrap up with Doncic on the basketball court shooting jump shots.

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The first out of the tunnel, as she’s been all season, she fires off jump shots with a stone-faced expression.

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As the old saying goes, live by the jump shot, die by the jump shot.

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Meanwhile, the Bruins kept shooting jump shots that were off the mark.

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“Start on the block, curl around the chair, jump shot,” the younger Dailey said of the routine.

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