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A raised vertical board with basket attached
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backboard
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It looks lovely right up until it ricochets off the backboard .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A tennis backboard is a simple wall usually made from some kind of fiberboard and located at a tennis court attached to a fence. It should have a tennis net either drawn or painted at the proper height. It is designed to allow a single person to practice ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a raised vertical board with basket attached; used to play basketball; "he banked the shot off the backboard" [syn: basketball backboard ] a board used to support the back of someone or something
Usage examples of backboard.
Between two of the huts, mounted on a pole, was a warped backboard with a netless hoop, and some young men were shooting baskets.
Anna finished strapping Corinne to the backboard and immobilizing her head and neck between orange foam cubes designed for the purpose.
Anna nodded noncommittally and took up her own twig, stripped it and began tracing patterns on a small slate of earth cleared when the backboard was dragged across it.
There was a backboard mounted over the garage door and a swing set was just visible in back.
A basketball backboard was still planted in concrete on a wide asphalt apron set aside for guest parking.
The ambulance came less than five minutes later, with shrieking sirens, and the paramedics were quick to put her on a backboard and give her oxygen as they slid the board into the ambulance.
Park Service: oxygen bottle, backboard, first-aid kit, and white helium-filled balloons.
Anna performed rescue breathing while the backboard was moved into place.
A spin shot off the glass from under the backboard goes in because of the conservation of angular momentum.
Then I saw Tom, still on the backboard, being transferred onto a gurney and wheeled away.
To his surprise, the chair was very comfortable, though the unyielding backboard made him sit up very straight.
Left him to the dust and the dingoes while she traveled to the homestead for a backboard and a stretcher?
The room itself had the look of a gymnasium, but Sin saw no court lines painted on the parquet floor, nor any basketball backboards hanging on the walls.
He was interested in the future of the playground equipment: the cracked-clay volleyball court, the field-hockey field, and the basketball backboards and hoops — the nets were long since rotted away.
He was interested in the future of the playground equipment: the cracked-clay volleyball court, the field-hockey field, and the basketball backboards and hoops—the nets were long since rotted away.