double dribble

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   an illegal dribble in basketball (the player uses both hands to dribble or the player starts to dribble a second time after coming to a stop)

   Broaderdribble

   basketball

Questions about double dribble

What does double dribble mean?

double dribble means "an illegal dribble in basketball (the player uses both hands to dribble or the player starts to dribble a second time after coming to a stop)".

Is double dribble a common word?

double dribble 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.