fast break

1. 1.

   (basketball) a rapid dash to get a shot as soon as possible after taking possession of the ball

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Questions about fast break

What does fast break mean?

fast break means "(basketball) a rapid dash to get a shot as soon as possible after taking possession of the ball".

Is fast break a common word?

fast break 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.