heat checker
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.07 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A player who performs a heat check.
Example Sentences
- "[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."
Etymology
From heat check + -er.
Inflected Forms
heat checkers (plural)