JUMP BALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jump ball mean? 

• JUMP BALL (noun)
  The noun JUMP BALL has 1 sense:

1. (basketball) the way play begins or resumes when possession is disputed; an official tosses the ball up between two players who jump in an effort to tap it to a teammate

  Familiarity information: JUMP BALL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUMP BALL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(basketball) the way play begins or resumes when possession is disputed; an official tosses the ball up between two players who jump in an effort to tap it to a teammate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("jump ball" is a kind of...):

beginning; commencement; start (the act of starting something)

Domain category:

basketball; basketball game; hoops (a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jump ball"):

tap-off; tip-off (the act of starting a basketball game with a jump ball)