pivot shot

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   a one-handed basketball shot made while whirling on the pivot foot

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Questions about pivot shot

What does pivot shot mean?

pivot shot means "a one-handed basketball shot made while whirling on the pivot foot".

Is pivot shot a common word?

pivot 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.