dribbles
Moves ball downcourt
Dribbles is the third-person singular of dribble.
Liquid dribbles when it flows in a thin, irregular stream: Water dribbled from the faucet.
A person dribbles when saliva escapes their mouth uncontrollably.
In basketball and soccer, to dribble is to advance the ball with short, controlled bounces or kicks.
As a noun, dribbles are small amounts trickling out: dribbles of information, dribbles of funding.
Small portions or pieces
- portionsDivided amounts allocated
- tricklesFlows in drops
- smattersKnows slightly, superficially
- hintsIndirect suggestions
traces · morsels · fragments · increments · pittance · sparse · meager · scant
Genre-blending work or transition
- handlesGrasping parts or manages
- courtTrial venue or sports surface
- point guardBall-handling court leader
- hesitationDelay from uncertainty
drives · layup · guards · streetball · moves · skills · bounce · control
trickles
Flows in drops
oozes · droplets · spills · streams · runs · flows · slobber · saliva · moisture · condensation
bits
Small portions or pieces
hints · traces · morsels · fragments · increments · pittance · sparse · meager · scant · gradual
crossover
Genre-blending work or transition
- handlesGrasping parts or manages
- courtTrial venue or sports surface
- point guardBall-handling court leader
hesitation · drives · layup · guards · streetball · moves · skills · bounce · control · fakes
footwork
Skilled lower-limb movement
- touchesMakes physical contact
- ball controlMastery over the sphere
- nutmegAromatic seed spice
feints · skills · Messi · Neymar · wingers · pace · close control · stepovers · attacking · pitch
- double dribbleBasketball rule infraction
- crossover dribbleHand-switching bounce to deceive
- dribble glassNovelty cup that leaks
- dribbling drillsBasketball fundamentals training
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