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SLAPSHOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slapshot mean? 

SLAPSHOT (noun)
  The noun SLAPSHOT has 1 sense:

1. a fast shot made with a short powerful swing of the hockey stickplay

  Familiarity information: SLAPSHOT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SLAPSHOT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A fast shot made with a short powerful swing of the hockey stick

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("slapshot" is a kind of...):

shot (an attempt to score in a game)

Holonyms ("slapshot" is a part of...):

hockey; hockey game; ice hockey (a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled hockey sticks)


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