fast break
Use Fast break in a sentencefast break
noun Basketball.
a play or method of play that brings the ball from one end of the court to the other quickly, usually by one or two quick passes in an attempt by the offensive team to score before the defensive team can get into position.
Origin:
1945–50
1945–50
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verb (used without object), fast-broke, fast-bro·ken, fast-break·ing. Basketball.
to execute or play in the style of a fast break.
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Example sentences
Believe it or not, that pace is the legislative equivalent of a fast break.
In a fast break offense in basketball, however, speed and opportunity replace position and relationship.
It's starting a fast break toward the rest of his life, free from worry.
We taught some of the southerners how to fast break, that they didn't know how to do.
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