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hook shot en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A shot in which the offensive player gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head.
  2. A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height; a hook.
  3. Synonym of hook (“a shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left”).
  4. Synonym of hook (“shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side”).

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Synonyms

hook · hook

Translations (6)

mk хорог (basketball shot that goes overhead) · ca ganxo (basketball shot that goes overhead) · mk хорок (basketball shot that goes overhead) · fr bras roulé (basketball shot that goes overhead) · it tiro a uncino (basketball shot that goes overhead) · it gancio (basketball shot that goes overhead)