hook shot

English

Noun

A hook shot in basketball

hook shot (plural hook shots)

(basketball) 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.
(cricket) 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.

Translations

basketball shot that goes overhead

Catalan: ganxo (ca) m
French: bras roulé m
Italian: gancio (it) m, tiro a uncino m
Macedonian: хорок f (horok), хорог f (horog)

References

“hook shot”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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