forehand drive

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   (sports) hard straight return made on the forehand side (as in tennis or badminton or squash)

   Broaderdrive

   tennis · badminton · squash

Questions about forehand drive

What does forehand drive mean?

forehand drive means "(sports) hard straight return made on the forehand side (as in tennis or badminton or squash)".

Is forehand drive a common word?

forehand drive 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.