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pump-fake

pump-fake verb: to pretend to throw or shoot the ball in order to make a defender react. Also the alternative form of pump fake.

Verb

pump-fake (third-person singular simple present pump-fakes, present participle pump-faking, simple past and past participle pump-faked)

  1. To pretend to throw or shoot the ball in order to make a defender react.
    • The way he pump-fakes it in the Oval Office is really distracting.2003 December 18, "Bush Won't Put Down New Football", The Onion, available in, 2005, Embedded in America, p. 51

Also used as

pump-fake is also the alternative form of pump fake.

Forms of pump-fake

Verb
third-person singular presentpump-fakes
present participlepump-faking
past participlepump-faked
pastpump-faked
Noun
pluralpump-fakes

Questions about pump-fake

What does pump-fake mean?
Pump-fake means to pretend to throw or shoot the ball in order to make a defender react.
What part of speech is pump-fake?
Pump-fake is a verb.
What is the past tense of pump-fake?
The past tense of pump-fake is pump-faked.

Words near pump-fake in the dictionary

  1. pump-action shotguns
  2. pump-and-dump
  3. pump-and-dumps
  4. pump-car
  5. pump-cars
  6. pump-fake
  7. pump-faked
  8. pump-fakes
  9. pump-faking
  10. pump-jet
  11. pump-jets

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