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SLAPSHOT

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 stick

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

Dictionary entry details

• SLAPSHOT (noun)

Sense 1

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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 sticks)

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