chop shot

1. 1.

   a tennis return made with a downward motion that puts backspin on the ball

   Synonymschop

   Broaderreturn

Questions about chop shot

What does chop shot mean?

chop shot means "a tennis return made with a downward motion that puts backspin on the ball".

What is another word for chop shot?

Close synonyms include chop. 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 chop shot a common word?

chop shot is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.