basketball

basket +‎ ball

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːs.kɪt.bɔːl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbæs.kɪt.bɔl/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈbæs.kɪt.bɑl/

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basketball (countable and uncountable, plural basketballs)

1. (sports, uncountable) A sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop.

   Synonyms: (US slang) hoops, (US slang) b-ball

   play basketball

2. (countable) The particular kind of ball used in the sport of basketball.

basketball (third-person singular simple present basketballs, present participle basketballing, simple past and past participle basketballed)

1. (informal, intransitive) To play basketball.
   • 1968, Tom Tiede, Coward:

     by high school he was basketballing with the best of an all-Negro league

2. (informal, transitive) 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.

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• Appendix:Glossary of basketball

Borrowed from English basketball.

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

basketball c (singular definite basketballen, not used in plural form)

1. basketball

• (sport): basket
• (ball): basketbold

• basketball on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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basketball m (uncountable)

1. post-1990 spelling of basket-ball

From English basketball.

basketball m (definite singular basketballen, uncountable)

1. basketball (ball game)

   Synonym: basket

• “basketball” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “basketball” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From English basketball.

basketball m (definite singular basketballen, uncountable)

1. basketball (ball game)

   Synonym: korgball

• “basketball” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.