Meaning of hook shot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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. 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. Synonym of hook (“a shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left”).
4. Synonym of hook (“shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side”).

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