hook shot

== English == === Noun === hook shot (plural hook shots) (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. (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. (golf) Synonym of hook (“a shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left”). (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”). ==== Translations ==== === References === “hook shot”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.