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Hook shot

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Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket wordnet
  3. 3
    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.
  4. 4
    Synonym of hook (“a shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left”).
  5. 5
    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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