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downcourt

downcourt adverb: toward one's team's offensive basket.

Adverb

downcourt (comparative further downcourt or farther downcourt, superlative furthest downcourt or farthest downcourt)

  1. Toward one's team's offensive basket
    • Ever since Barnes played with Davis at U.C.L.A., he has been able to throw baseball passes halfway downcourt.2007 May 13, Lee Jenkins, “Nellie Ball Energizes Warriors and Confounds Opponents”, in New York Times

Antonyms of downcourt

Forms of downcourt

comparativefurther downcourt
comparativefarther downcourt
superlativefurthest downcourt
superlativefarthest downcourt

Origin of downcourt

From down- + court.

Questions about downcourt

What does downcourt mean?
Downcourt means toward one's team's offensive basket.
What part of speech is downcourt?
Downcourt is an adverb.

Words near downcourt in the dictionary

  1. downconverters
  2. downconverting
  3. downconverts
  4. downcore
  5. downcountry
  6. downcourt
  7. downcried
  8. downcries
  9. downcrossing
  10. downcry
  11. downcrying

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