Definitions for jump shot

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

jump′ shot`(n.)

  1. a basketball shot made by releasing the ball at the peak of a vertical leap.

    Category: Sport

Origin of jump shot:

1905–10

Princeton's WordNet

  1. jumper, jump shot(noun)

    (basketball) a player releases the basketball at the high point of a jump

Wiktionary

  1. jump shot(Noun)

    A shot in which the player releases the ball at the highest point of a jump.


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