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hook shots

hook shots is the plural of hook shot.

Meaning of hook shot

Noun

hook shot (plural hook shots)

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Synonym of hook (“a shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left”).
    Synonyms:
    hook
  4. Synonym of hook (“shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side”).
    Synonyms:
    hook

Questions about hook shots

What is hook shots the plural of?
Hook shots is the plural of hook shot.

Words near hook shots in the dictionary

  1. hook pins
  2. Hook Point poison
  3. hook shop
  4. hook shops
  5. hook shot
  6. hook shots
  7. hook stock
  8. hook stocks
  9. hook switch
  10. hook switches
  11. hook turn

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