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語源

From basket +‎ ball.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈbɑːs.kɪt.bɔːl/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈbæs.kɪt.bɔl/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˈbæs.kɪt.bɑl/

名詞

basketball (countable and uncountable, plural basketballs)

1. (sports, uncountable) A sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop.

   Synonyms: (US slang) hoops, (US slang) b-ball

   to play basketball

   He pursued basketball as his career.

   • 2021 May 12, Emily Cochrane, “In Infrastructure Talks With Biden, Capito Faces Fraught Path to Deal”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 12 August 2021:

     Children playing basketball at their home in front of the John Amos coal-fired power plant in Poca, W.Va. President Biden’s infrastructure plan includes climate change measures that aim to close coal-fired plants.

2. (countable) The particular kind of ball used in the sport of basketball.

派生語

派生した語

動詞

basketball (third-person singular simple present basketballs, present participle basketballing, simple past and past participle basketballed)

1. (informal, intransitive) To play basketball.
   • 1968, Tom Tiede, Coward:

     by high school he was basketballing with the best of an all-Negro league

2. (informal, transitive) To throw in a similar way to when shooting a basketball.
   • 1994, Jeff Probst, Bachelor Butterflies:

     He took a sip from a paper coffee-cup , crumpled it up and basketballed it into a small rubbish bin about five feet from him.

参考

• Appendix:Glossary of basketball