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An instance of fading away, of diminishing in proximity or intensity..
In his final years he [John Ogdon] gave an interview to an American journalist who noticed that "his handshake is a boneless fadeaway["].
He taunted the Knicks instead with hanging jumpers, impossible fadeaways and layups in traffic.
[Markieff] Morris isn’t quite the post-up threat that [Enes] Kanter is, and he can play both the 4 spot and 5 spot instead of just center, like Kanter. He is capable of playing a similar way, backing defenders down in the post. He prefers getting his buckets there with a bevy of fade-aways and jumpers. He’s a heat checker. And he can get hot on the block.
Why some people choose to do the infamous "fadeaway" instead of a clean break?
Use fadeaway when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fadeaway means An instance of fading away, of diminishing in proximity or intensity..
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In his final years he [John Ogdon] gave an interview to an American journalist who noticed that "his handshake is a boneless fadeaway["].
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