WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
jump′ shot′, [Basketball.]
  1. Sporta shot with one or both hands in which a player leaps into the air and shoots the ball at the basket at the moment of reaching the highest point of the leap.
  • 1905–10

'jump shot' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
fadeaway - jumper

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