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A basketball shot in which the ball is launched into a considerably higher arc than that of a normal shot. It is usually the weopon of smaller players (usually Guards) to score over the top of larger players. They can be taken of both feet as a normal jumpshot just pushed higher or off of one like a high launched lay up.
Nash hits the teardrop shot to tie the game
by Kendle_cranks June 07, 2006
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similar to a euro step but consists of a complete shot while moving directly towards the basket. Used in basketball
Davis: What the hell is the difference between a euro step & tear drop
Trey: Tear drop is for driving completely up the paint using your knee to push the defender off of you
Aldo: Ball is life
by treyballer February 02, 2015
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(n.) When playing the sport of basketball, a teardrop is when a basketball that is shot drops through the net so cleanly that all you hear is "Swish"
Announcer #1: Allen Iverson fakes right, drives left, floats a shot over the 7 foot defender and scores!

Announcer #2: DAMN MARV! THAT SHIT WAS A TEAR DROP
by SamirHaider February 01, 2005
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When a guy is jacking off and he cums and it gets her right below the eye and it runs down her face like tear drops.
Man my woman looked like she was crying last night, why becuase i gave her a tear drop.
by Soultaker5 November 17, 2006
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the best classification of ass-shape that a white girl can hope for. it's shaped like a teardrop and only looks good in the right pair of pants.

see also: onion
damn that white girl got a onion!

nah son, that's just a teardrop, look at the shape
by knowledge August 27, 2004
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the shape that water takes when you cry

Other objects can also look like teardrops
"Kaitlin was sad because her face looked like a teardrop"
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