Usually means: Basketball shot moving away from.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word fadeaway:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. fadeaway: Merriam-Webster
  2. fadeaway: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fadeaway: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fadeaway: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Fadeaway, fadeaway: Wordnik
  6. fadeaway: Wiktionary
  7. fadeaway: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. fadeaway: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. fadeaway: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. fadeaway: Dictionary.com
  11. Fadeaway: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. fadeaway: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fadeaway: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Fadeaway: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (fadeaway)

noun:  An instance of fading away, of diminishing in proximity or intensity.
noun:  (basketball) A jump shot made while jumping backwards, away from the basket, with the goal to create space between the shooter and the defender, making it much harder to block.
noun:  (slang) The ending of a personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not providing an explanation.

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