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pump fake

verb, noun — 2 senses

pump-fake

verbalso spelled pump-fake
1

Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports To pretend to throw or shoot the ball in order to make a defender react.

  • The way he pump-fakes it in the Oval Office is really distracting.2003 December 18, "Bush Won't Put Down New Football", The Onion, available in, 2005, Embedded in America, p. 51

pump fake

noun
1

Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports An act of pretending to throw or shoot the ball in order to make a defender react.

  • Winning quarterbacks find creative ways to win, whether it is by scrambling, using a pump fake, calling an audible at the line of scrimmage, or blocking downfield for a running back.2007, Clinton O. Longenecker, Greg R. Papp, Timothy C. Stansfield, The Two-Minute Drill, page 60:
  • Sure enough, instead of the drop-back pass, the quarterback gave a pump-fake and then handed off to his fullback on the draw play.2004, Pete Rose, Rick Hill, My Prison Without Bars, page 6:
1 more example
  • He fooled Penny with a pump fake and dropped in a 3-pointer, sending the game into overtime.2002, Shaquille O'Neal, Shaq Talks Back, page 42:

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — authors: page histories for pump-fake and pump fake.