unconscious

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unconscious (comparative more unconscious, superlative most unconscious)

1. not conscious
2. (sports) engaged in skilled performance without conscious control.
   • 1998, Charles Rosen, The Cockroach Basketball League, page 144

     Sam is unconscious, filling it, drilling it from every conceivable angle. Lem is awful and Cooper seems confused. Josh shoots too often.

   • 1999, Joseph Leininger, Terry Whalin, Lessons from the Pit: A Successful Veteran of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, page 10

     "I was unconscious," the basketball player gushes. "It seemed like everything I threw up toward the basket went straight in."

   • 2002, Alexander Wolff, Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure, page 292

     Someone who has reeled off a string of baskets will say, "I was unconscious," as if he were following the Zen injunction to be mindful while suspending thought.

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• (skilled performance without conscious control): in the zone, on a roll

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the unconscious (singulare tantum)

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