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astroturfing
a PR tactic used in politics and advertising in which actors are paid to display overt and apparently spontaneous grassroots support for a particular product, policy, or event -
backdoor play
an offensive tactic whereby a player breaks away from a defender to receive a pass near the baseline in order to make a quick layup. -
eutaxy
a state of good order -
full-court press
Basketball. a tactic of harassing, close-guarding defense in which the team without the ball pressures the opponent man-to-man the entire length of the court in order to disrupt dribbling or passing and force a turnover: Suddenly behind by eighteen points, they went to a full-court press. -
isotactic
(of a polymer) having the same configuration at successive, regularly spaced positions along the chain. See also configuration (def 4). -
pac-man defense
a defensive tactic against a hostile takeover in which the targeted company makes its own bid to take over the hostile firm.