Crossword clues for backspin
backspin
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. spin applied to a ball in order to slow it, change its flight, or stop it when it lands. vb. (context transitive English) To spin (a ball) with this motion.
WordNet
n. spin (usually of a moving ball) that retards or reverses the forward motion
Wikipedia
BackSpin is a radio station on Sirius XM Radio featuring old school hip hop, Golden Age hip hop, 1980s "new school" hip hop, and 1980-1990s hip hop.
On November 12, 2008 the channel (along with The Boneyard and The Strobe) went on hiatus. However, four days later Sirius XM Radio announced that BackSpin and The Strobe would return to the service on January 15, 2009 due to subscriber demand. On January 15, 2009, BackSpin was returned to the Sirius/XM lineup; Sirius channel 39, Dish Network channel 6039 and XM channel 65 (replacing The Rhyme). Prior to November 12, BackSpin was on Sirius channel 43. On May 4, 2011, BackSpin moved to 46 on Sirius XM Radio then most recently BackSpin return to 43.
The station features 1980s-1990s hip hop, although on the internet player the station can be biased toward either decade.
The station's logo uses a graffiti style font, reflecting its urban format.
Backspin or back spin may refer to:
- Backspin, a tennis shot
- BackSpin, a classic Hip-Hop radio station on Sirius XM Radio
- Back Spin (novel), a novel by Harlan Coben
- Back spinning, the act of manually manipulating a vinyl record backwards during playback
Usage examples of "backspin".
Stice stood in the middle of the baseline awaiting pace and was helpless when Hal shortened the stroke and dribbled it at an angle cross-court, barely clearing the net and distorted with backspin and falling into the half-meter of fair space the acuteness of the angle allowed.
An undercut, backspinning ball in Ping-Pong was a strange shot with special properties.
Only seldom does he surprise the Oberkassel or Derendorf Seniors with tricky backspins.
Schacht bloops each return up with severe backspin so the balls'll roll back to him and he can serve them back to his guy, also warming up.
He wound up as if for the hardest slam yet, then dinked the ball down just over the net with a heavy backspin that damped it almost to a standstill.
He wound up as if for the hardest slam yet, then dinked the ball down just over the net with a heavy backspin that damped it almost to a standstill.
When people witnessed his implausible wrist-dribble or his zero-gravity double-pump fadeaway jumper off a pick at the high post (a shot that often concluded with the metal-gripping drollery of backspin and dead-rimming), they knew they weren't seeing just another demonstration of giantism engaged in a parody of faunlike grace.
Eric watched in disbelief as one boy moonwalked backwards, flipped over into a handstand, then rolled to the concrete in a tight backspin.
Maybe in some crazy way Paul Dissat was a fun-house mirror image of me, a warped McGee with backspin, reverse English.