drop shot

1. 1.

   a soft return so that the tennis ball drops abruptly after crossing the net

   Synonymsdink

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Questions about drop shot

What does drop shot mean?

drop shot means "a soft return so that the tennis ball drops abruptly after crossing the net".

What is another word for drop shot?

Close synonyms include dink. 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 drop shot a common word?

drop 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.