ball hawking

1. 1.

   a skillful maneuver in catching balls or in stealing the ball from the opposing team

   Broadermaneuver

Questions about ball hawking

What does ball hawking mean?

ball hawking means "a skillful maneuver in catching balls or in stealing the ball from the opposing team".

Is ball hawking a common word?

ball hawking is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.