finger-roll

1. 1.

   a basketball shot that rolls off the tips of the fingers into the basket

   Broaderbasketball shot

Questions about finger-roll

What does finger-roll mean?

finger-roll means "a basketball shot that rolls off the tips of the fingers into the basket".

How many syllables are in finger-roll?

finger-roll has 3 syllables and divides as fin-ger--roll under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is finger-roll a common word?

finger-roll 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.