push shot

American  

noun

1. Basketball. a shot with one hand from a point relatively distant from the basket, in which a player shoots the ball from shoulder level or above.

2. Golf. a shot, played with an iron, in which a player with the weight forward on the front foot and with the wrists firm strikes the ball a sharp, descending blow in hitting a low ball with backspin.

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Etymology

Origin of push shot

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

With four minutes left, Curry’s push shot off the glass put his team up two.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2023

Could it have been that Jolly didn’t appear all that formidable, with her braided blond hair, average speed and old-school push shot?

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2020

So, Wall began to shoot from about eight feet in Game 5, using a little push shot off two feet that he terms a floater.

From Washington Times • Apr. 27, 2017

But his heroics would not have been needed had Sean Woods not somehow sunk a push shot over Laettner’s outstretched arms to give Kentucky a 1-point lead with two seconds left.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2016

That was surely a fluke, but how about the push shot on fifteen?

From Fore! by Loan, Charles Emmett Van