charity toss

Questions about charity toss

What does charity toss mean?

charity toss means "an unhindered basketball shot from the foul line; given to penalize the other team for committing a foul".

What is another word for charity toss?

Close synonyms include foul shot, free throw, penalty free throw, charity throw, charity shot. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is charity toss a common word?

charity toss 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.