Definition of "underthrow" [underthrow]

• To throw a pass that falls short of the receiver. (May take either the thrown pass or the receiver as its direct object.) (verb)

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• "The first interception came on an underthrow from the end zone in the second quarter."
• ""underthrow," for which my little nephew, I hear, is famous."
• "But when he missed, he missed badly - including an underthrow to Paul Chaney Jr. that Maine picked off at its own 3."