Meaning

4 senses
  1. In sports such as badminton, squash, tennis and volleyball, a lightly-struck shot that just lands into play.

  2. A downward chopping shot used to extract a ball that lies deep in the grass.

  3. In first-person shooters, the act of quickly switching from a standing position to a prone position while shooting at an opponent.

  4. Synonym of bomb shot (“type of mixed drink”).

More definitions
  • a soft return so that the tennis ball drops abruptly after crossing the net

Examples

1 sentences
  1. My opponent hit a wicked drop shot to save the first match point.

    ruМой соперник отыграл первый матчбол классным укороченным. — Ooneykcall

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Translations

4 languages
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By meaning 1
a lightly struck shot that lands just in play:

Forms

plural: drop shots

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a soft return so that the tennis ball drops abruptly after crossing the net:dink

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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