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Definition of Stuff shot
1. Noun. A basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket.
Generic synonyms: Basketball Shot
Specialized synonyms: Slam Dunk
Derivative terms: Dunk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stuff Shot
Literary usage of Stuff shot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Building by a Builder: Practical and Economical Considerations for the Man by Benjamin A. Howes (1914)
"On one was a strip of green satiny stuff shot with yellow, and on it was a bowl
of yellow roses, widely opened. On the other table was a strip of green ..."
2. Paston Letters: Original Letters, Written During the Reigns of Henry VI by John Fenn, A Ramsay (1859)
"2 George Nevile was translated from Exeter to York in 1464. life and my servants,
which ye think doubtful if so be that they lack stuff, shot, and victuals; ..."
3. The Later Years of Catherine De' Medici by Edith Helen Sichel (1908)
"The assassin had been told to pick out of a certain band of gentlemen the one
that wore " a sling of stuff shot like a pigeon's breast," and to see that he ..."
4. Salve Venetia: Gleanings from Venetian History by Francis Marion Crawford (1905)
"White silk and silver stuff; shot-silk and silver stuff; white satin with gold
lines, etc. Cushions of brocade embroidered with gold and of blue velvet with ..."
5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1885)
"... matter of the earth's crust than that they are as wholly independent of it as
if they were formed of stuff shot from passing meteors and asteroids; ..."
6. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"Or, to take another comparison, her nature seemed to be at once stiff and rich,
like some heavy church stuff shot with gold. " Oh, these things are my snare ..."
7. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1891)
"Presently he faced around again, and in his hand was a red silk scarf or
handkerchief, a piece of rich Eastern stuff shot with gold and embroidered along ..."
8. Gleanings from Venetian History by Francis Marion Crawford (1907)
"White silk and silver stuff; shot-silk and silver stuff; white satin with gold
lines, etc. Cushions of brocade embroidered with gold, and of blue velvet ..."
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