Definition of up-fake
:a fake in which a player makes an upward movement to simulate starting to take a shot
- … senior guard Natalie Ventress had the Mustangs fooled with a nice up-fake and right-handed layup finish.
- —Hayes Clement
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up-fake
verb, transitive + intransitive-
- Leonard later bulled his way by James to the rim, up-faked and then made a floating jumper over the Cavaliers forward.
- —The Lewiston (Idaho) Morning Tribune
