Jump Shot

Jump shot or jumpshot may refer to:

  • Jump shot, in cue sports such as pool (pocket billiards), a shot in which the cue ball is intentionally jumped into the air to clear an obstacle (usually an object ball)
  • Jump shot (basketball), an attempt to score in basketball by jumping, usually straight up, and in mid-jump, propelling the ball in an arc into the basket, unlike a normal shot in which the player's feet stay on the ground
  • Jumpshot (musician), an American hip-hop & electronica musician based out of New York City.

Famous quotes containing the words jump and/or shot:

    ““If my head hurt a hair’s foot
    Pack back the downed bone. If the unpricked ball of my breath
    Bump on a spout let the bubbles jump out....””
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanization of feelings, then the ultimate development on an organized social level is the concentration camp.... The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.”
    —Arthur Miller (b. 1915)