give-and-go

1. 1.

   a basketball maneuver; one offensive player passes the ball to another, then runs toward the basket to take a return pass

   Broaderbasketball play

Questions about give-and-go

What does give-and-go mean?

give-and-go means "a basketball maneuver; one offensive player passes the ball to another, then runs toward the basket to take a return pass".

How many syllables are in give-and-go?

give-and-go has 4 syllables and divides as gi-ve--and--go 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 give-and-go a common word?

give-and-go 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.