hook shot

A hook shot in basketball

hook shot (plural hook shots)

1. (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.
2. (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.
3. (golf) Synonym of hook (“a shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left”)
4. (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”)

• “hook shot”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.