Usually means: Timer limiting possession time, basketball.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. shot clock: Merriam-Webster
  2. shot clock: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. shot-clock: Wordnik
  4. shot clock: Wiktionary
  5. shot clock: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  6. shot clock: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. shot clock: Dictionary.com
  8. Shot Clock (song), Shot Clock, Shot clock: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. shot clock: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. shot clock: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Shot clock: Sports Definitions

Definitions from Wiktionary (shot clock)

noun:  (basketball) A timer measuring the length of time since the last shot.
noun:  (tennis) A countdown of the time remaining within which the current server must serve the ball.
noun:  (ice hockey) A counter of the total shots on net for a team in a game; or average shots on net per unit time for a game.

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