follow-through love

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act or an instance of following through.
  • noun Sports The concluding part of a stroke, after a ball or other object has been hit or released.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In golf, the course described by the club in the swing after the ball is struck.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Carrying a process, plan, or project to full completion. The term usually is used in reference to the period after some point in time at which the actor is given freedom to pursue the project.
  • noun (Golf, Baseball, Tennis) The remainder of a stroke with a club, bat, or racket after the ball has been hit.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The continuance or completion of a project
  • noun sports The continued action of a stroke, or of the delivery of a ball, after it has been hit or released

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue
  • verb carry a stroke to natural completion after hitting or releasing a ball
  • noun carrying some project or intention to full completion
  • noun the act of carrying a stroke to its natural completion

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