jump shot

1. 1.

   (basketball) a player releases the basketball at the high point of a jump

   Synonymsjumper

   Broaderbasketball shot

   basketball

Questions about jump shot

What does jump shot mean?

jump shot means "(basketball) a player releases the basketball at the high point of a jump".

What is another word for jump shot?

Close synonyms include jumper. 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 jump shot a common word?

jump 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.