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basketball
English
Etymology
basket +? ball
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b??s.k?t.b??l/
- (US) IPA(key): /?bæs.k?t.b??l/
Noun
basketball (countable and uncountable, plural basketballs)
- (sports, uncountable) A sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop.
- Synonym: (US slang) hoops
- (countable) The particular kind of ball used in the sport of basketball.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
Verb
basketball (third-person singular simple present basketballs, present participle basketballing, simple past and past participle basketballed)
- To play basketball
- 1968, Tom Tiede, Coward
- by high school he was basketballing with the best of an all-Negro league
- 1968, Tom Tiede, Coward
- To throw in a similar way to when shooting a basketball
- 1994, Jeff Probst, Bachelor Butterflies
- He took a sip from a paper coffee-cup , crumpled it up and basketballed it into a small rubbish bin about five feet from him.
- 1994, Jeff Probst, Bachelor Butterflies
See also
- Appendix:Glossary of basketball
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English basketball.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba?sk?tba?l/, [?b???s???d??b???l]
Noun
basketball c (singular definite basketballen, not used in plural form)
- basketball
Synonyms
- (sport): basket
- (ball): basketbold
See also
- basketball on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
French
Noun
basketball m (uncountable)
- Alternative form of basket-ball
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English basketball.
Noun
basketball m (definite singular basketballen, uncountable)
- basketball (ball game)
- Synonym: basket
References
- “basketball” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “basketball” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From English basketball.
Noun
basketball m (definite singular basketballen, uncountable)
- basketball (ball game)
- Synonym: korgball
References
- “basketball” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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basketballer
English
Etymology
basketball +? -er
Noun
basketballer (plural basketballers)
- (informal) A basketball player; a person who plays basketball.
Related terms
- baller
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