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basket

basketball

noun bahs-KET Less Common

Also means

sneaker

Usage Note

Basket (also le basket-ball) is the shortened everyday term for basketball as a sport. In informal French, des baskets (always plural in this sense) refers to trainers or sneakers. Lâche-moi les baskets is a colloquial expression meaning 'get off my back'.

Examples

"Il joue au basket tous les samedis."

Natural Translation

He plays basketball every Saturday.

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