Usually means: Basketball shot, curved over defenders.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. hook shot: Merriam-Webster
  2. hook shot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hook shot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hook shot: Vocabulary.com
  5. hook shot: Wiktionary
  6. hook shot: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. hook shot: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. hook shot: Dictionary.com
  9. Hook shot: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. hook shot: Rhymezone
  11. hook shot: FreeDictionary.org
  12. hook shot: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. hook shot: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. hook shot: Encyclopedia

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  1. hook shot: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Hook shot: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hook shot)

noun:  (basketball) A shot in which the offensive player gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head.
noun:  (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height; a hook.
noun:  (golf) Synonym of hook (“a shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left”)
noun:  (cricket) Synonym of hook (“shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side”)

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