passing shot

1. 1.

   a tennis return that passes an opponent who has approached the net

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Questions about passing shot

What does passing shot mean?

passing shot means "a tennis return that passes an opponent who has approached the net".

Is passing shot a common word?

passing shot 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.