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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Basketball An aggressive defensive strategy in which one or two players harass the ball handler in the backcourt while the rest of the team maintains a close man-to-man or zone defense.
- noun A strong, concerted effort.
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- noun basketball A
coordinated maneuver , involving allteam members, toblock orinterfere with theopposing team's attempt to advance theball down the playingcourt . - noun figuratively, by extension A
thorough ,collaborative effort toovercome orconstrain another person or group, especially arival oropponent .
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