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☆ free throw

Basketball a free, or unhindered, shot at the basket from a designated line (free-throw line), allowed to a player as a penalty imposed on the opponents for some rule infraction: each successful shot counts for one point

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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