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Definition of Fadeaway
1. Noun. An instance of fading away, of diminishing in proximity or intensity. ¹
2. Noun. (basketball) a jump shot made while jumping backwards, away from the basket. The goal is to create space between the shooter and the defender, making it much harder to block. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fadeaway
1. a type of pitch in baseball [n -AWAYS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fadeaway
Literary usage of Fadeaway
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Christmas Entertainments: Containing Fancy Drills, Acrostics, Motion Songs by Alice Maude Kellogg (1918)
"Princess fadeaway. Greening, Sweeting, Ladies to the Princess. The Kitchenmaid.
... SCENE : The Kitchen in the Castle of Princess fadeaway. ..."
2. Touching Second: The Science of Baseball by John J. Evers, Hugh S. Fullerton (1910)
"Mathewson achieved his "fadeaway" by holding the ball exactly as Griffith ...
Scores of pitchers have imitated Mathewson's "fadeaway;" some with success. ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"To obviate these objections, Childe invented, in 1807, his famous method of '
dissolving views,'by which one picture appeared gradually to fadeaway, ..."
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