airball

Meanings

Noun

• A shot that misses the backboard, rim and net entirely.

Verb

• To throw an airball

Origin

• air + ball
• The first recorded use of the "airball" chant was on February 24, 1979, during a college basketball game between the Duke University Blue Devils and the North Carolina Tar Heels after the Tar Heels' Rich Yonakor took a shot which missed the rim.