Usually means: Desperate last-chance effort play.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word hail mary:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hail Mary: Merriam-Webster
  2. Hail Mary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Hail Mary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Hail Mary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Hail Mary: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hail-Mary, Hail Mary, hail-mary, hail-Mary: Wordnik
  7. Hail Mary, Hail mary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Hail Mary: Wiktionary
  9. Hail Mary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Hail Mary: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Hail Mary, hail mary: Dictionary.com
  12. Hail Mary (2Pac song), Hail Mary (Dark New Day album), Hail Mary (Iwrestledabearonce album), Hail Mary (disambiguation), Hail Mary (film), Hail Mary (pass), Hail Mary, Hail mary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Hail mary: Rhymezone
  14. hail mary: FreeDictionary.org
  15. hail mary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Hail Mary: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. hail mary: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  18. Hail Mary: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hail, Mary, Hail Mary: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hail Mary: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hail Mary: Sports Definitions

(Note: See hail_marys as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Hail Mary)

noun:  (Christianity) A prayer, of established or conventional wording, calling for the intercession of the Virgin Mary.
noun:  (figurative, usually attributive, US) A risky last-ditch effort with great benefit but little chance of success; one whose success would require divine intervention; a Hail Mary pass.
verb:  (often reflexive) To pray by saying a Hail Mary.

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