scoop shot

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   a basketball shot made with an underhand scooping motion

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Questions about scoop shot

What does scoop shot mean?

scoop shot means "a basketball shot made with an underhand scooping motion".

Is scoop shot a common word?

scoop 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.