From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishjump shotˈjump shot noun [countable] DSan action in basketball in which you throw the ball towards the basket as you jump in the air
Examples from the Corpus
jump shot• Tiffany is 12 years old, and she had just retooled her jump shot.• We said we wanted Smith to work on his jump shot, not turn it into a career path.• For Spurs guard Vinny Del Negro, who was trying to realign his jump shot, this might have posed a distraction. 