slap shot
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of slap shot
First recorded in 1940–45
Example Sentences
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Leave it to “SNL” to bungle what should have been a slap shot straight into an open goal.
From Salon • Mar. 6, 2026
That’s when Hilary Knight deflected a Laila Edwards slap shot past Canadian goalie Ann-Renée Desbiens to even the score and eventually send the game to overtime.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026
Bouchard doubled the lead six minutes later, firing a slap shot past Kuemper from the top of the circles three seconds after the Kings’ Andrei Kuzmenko went off for interference.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2025
“Russian Machine never breaks,” Ovechkin once said, after limping off the ice courtesy of a slap shot to the foot.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2025
As Becky Amigliato’s slap shot made for my face that fall day, the events of the last half year flickered in my possibly-soon- to-be-extinguished consciousness.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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