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JUMP BALL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(basketball) the way play begins or resumes when possession is disputed; an official tosses the ball up between two players who jump in an effort to tap it to a teammate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("jump ball" is a kind of...):
beginning; commencement; start (the act of starting something)
Domain category:
basketball; basketball game; hoops (a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jump ball"):
tap-off; tip-off (the act of starting a basketball game with a jump ball)
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