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11free throw — ☆ free throw n. Basketball a free, or unhindered, shot at the basket from a designated line (free throw line), allowed to a player as a penalty imposed on the opponents for some rule infraction: each successful shot counts for one point …
12Free throw — Wally Szczerbiak shoots a free throw. In basketball, free throws or foul shots are unopposed attempts to score points from a restricted area on the court (the free throw line; informally known as the foul line), and are generally awarded after a… …
13free-throw lane — noun The rectangular or trapezoidal area between the free throw line and the end line. Players must remain outside the free throw lane until the ball leaves the free throw shooters hands …
14free throw — noun A shot, worth one point, taken from the free throw line and without opposition. Syn: foul shot …
15free throw lane — noun a lane on a basketball court extending from the end line to 15 feet in front of the backboard; players may not enter this lane during a free throw • Hypernyms: ↑lane • Part Holonyms: ↑basketball court * * * Basketball. the rectangular area,… …
16free throw — noun an unhindered basketball shot from the foul line; given to penalize the other team for committing a foul • Syn: ↑foul shot, ↑penalty free throw, ↑charity toss, ↑charity throw, ↑charity shot • Hypernyms: ↑basketball shot …
17free throw lane — noun Date: circa 1929 a 12 or 16 foot wide lane on a basketball court that extends from underneath the goal to a line 15 feet in front of the backboard and that players may not enter during a free throw …
18free throw — noun Free throw is used before these nouns: ↑line …
19free throw lane — Basketball. the rectangular area, 19 ft. (5.7 m) long and usually 12 or 16 ft. (3.6 m or 4.8 m) wide, extending from the end line behind each backboard to the foul line and along the sides of which players line up during a foul shot. [1925 30] *… …
20free throw — noun Date: circa 1929 an unhindered shot in basketball made from behind a set line and awarded because of a foul by an opponent …
