tap-off

English Thesaurus

1. the act of starting a basketball game with a jump ball (noun.act)

hypernym	:	jump ball,
definition	:	(basketball) the way play begins or resumes when possession is disputed; an official tosses the ball up between two players who jump in an effort to tap it to a teammate (noun.act)

part meronym	:	basketball, basketball game, hoops,
definition	:	a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop (noun.act)