hook shot

1. 1.

   a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket

   Synonymshook

   Broaderbasketball shot

Questions about hook shot

What does hook shot mean?

hook shot means "a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket".

What is another word for hook shot?

Close synonyms include hook. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hook shot a common word?

hook shot is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.