The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word PIVOT which also is the latest solution we found used in Wall Street Journal in 2022.
Basketball maneuver crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| PIVOT | 22 % | 5 |
| TAPIN | 22 % | 5 |
| PICK | 11 % | 4 |
| STALL | 6 % | 5 |
| GIVEANDGO | 6 % | 9 |
| PICKANDROLL | 6 % | 11 |
| DRIBBLE | 6 % | 7 |
| HOOKSHOT | 6 % | 8 |
| SWITCH | 6 % | 6 |
| JUMPSHOT | 6 % | 8 |
| ALLEYOOP | 6 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Basketball maneuver
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- lay up
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Crossword Answer definitions
PIVOT noun- A thing on which something turns; specifically a metal pointed pin or short shaft in machinery, such as the end of an axle or spindle.
- (by extension) Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.
- Act of turning on one foot.
- The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place while the company or line moves around him in wheeling.
- A player with responsibility for co-ordinating their team in a particular jam.
- An element of a set to be sorted that is chosen as a midpoint, so as to divide the other elements into two groups to be dealt with recursively.
- A pivot table.
- Any of a row of captioned elements used to navigate to subpages, rather like tabs.
- An element of a matrix that is used as a focus for row operations, such as dividing the row by the pivot, or adding multiples of the row to other rows making all other values in the pivot column 0.
- A quarterback.
- A shift during a general election in a political candidate's messaging to reflect plans and values more moderate than those advocated during the primary.
- To turn on an exact spot.
- To make a sudden or swift change in strategy, policy, etc.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result PIVOT
- Move about an axis
- Basketball footwork
- Turning point
- Swivel
- Center position, in basketball
- Swing around
- Spin around
- Turn on an axis
- Turn on a shaft
- Turn on one foot
More clues leading to the result TAPIN
- Easy two-pointer
- Easy one for Shaq
- Easy putt
- Golf gimme
- Green job?
- Masters gimme
- Easy golf putt
- Short putt
- Gimme on the green
- Golf green gimme
More clues leading to the result PICK
- Select
- Make a selection
- Choose
- Play the banjo
- Prospector's tool
- Provoke, as a fight
- Guitar-playing tool
- Guitarist's tool
- Tease, with "on"
- "___ a card, any card..."
More clues leading to the result STALL
- Conk out
- Flea-market division
- Park place?
- Play for time
- Bathroom unit
- Merchandise booth
- Engine problem
- Bazaar booth
- Booth
- Buy time
More clues leading to the result GIVEANDGO
More clues leading to the result PICKANDROLL
More clues leading to the result DRIBBLE
- Emulate Michael Jordan
- Emulate Dr. J
- Slaver
- Fall slowly in drops
- Bounce, in basketball
- Court maneuver
- Bounce on a court
- Bounce the basketball
- Bounce
- Court action
More clues leading to the result HOOKSHOT
More clues leading to the result SWITCH
- Circuit breaker
- Light accompaniment?
- On/off control
- Make a new choice
- Change
- Light activator
- Exchange
- Cat tail motion
- On/off item
- Basketball maneuver