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basketball

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See also:Basketballandbasket-ball

English

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A game of basketball.
a basketball

Etymology

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Frombasket +‎ball.

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Noun

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basketball (countable anduncountable,pluralbasketballs)

  1. (sports, uncountable) Asport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put aball through ahoop.
    Synonyms:(US slang)hoops,(US slang)b-ball
    to playbasketball
    He pursuedbasketball as his career.
    • 2021 May 12, Emily Cochrane, “In Infrastructure Talks With Biden, Capito Faces Fraught Path to Deal”, inThe New York Times[1], archived fromthe original on12 August 2021:
      Children playingbasketball at their home in front of the John Amos coal-fired power plant in Poca, W.Va. President Biden’s infrastructure plan includes climate change measures that aim to close coal-fired plants.
  2. (countable) The particular kind ofball used in the sport of basketball.

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the sport
the ball used in the sport

Verb

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basketball (third-person singular simple presentbasketballs,present participlebasketballing,simple past and past participlebasketballed)

  1. (informal, intransitive) Toplay basketball.
    • 1968, Tom Tiede,Coward:
      by high school he wasbasketballing with the best of an all-Negro league
  2. (informal, transitive) Tothrow in asimilar way to whenshooting a basketball.
    • 1994, Jeff Probst,Bachelor Butterflies:
      He took a sip from a paper coffee-cup , crumpled it up andbasketballed it into a small rubbish bin about five feet from him.

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Danish

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishbasketball.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /baːskətbaːl/,[ˈb̥ɑːsɡ̊əd̥ˌb̥ɒːl]

Noun

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basketball c (singular definitebasketballen,not used in plural form)

  1. basketball

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French

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Pronunciation

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basketball m (uncountable)

  1. post-1990 spelling ofbasket-ball

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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FromEnglishbasketball.

Noun

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basketball m (definite singularbasketballen,uncountable)

  1. basketball(ball game)
    Synonym:basket

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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FromEnglishbasketball.

Noun

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basketball m (definite singularbasketballen,uncountable)

  1. basketball(ball game)
    Synonym:korgball

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