half volley

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   a tennis return made by hitting the ball immediately after it bounces

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Questions about half volley

What does half volley mean?

half volley means "a tennis return made by hitting the ball immediately after it bounces".

Is half volley a common word?

half volley 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.