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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(basketball) The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached..
The L.B.S.C.R. favoured backboards for signals wherever these helped visibility. The Great Eastern also made extensive use of backboards.
He […]had ridden the remainder of the way clinging to the backboard of a cotton wagon.
And to delight in the fact that a hole on the backboard side means that you're safe because you're sitting on the starboard side seems to me to be less than clever.
But the gangplank was no longer in place. It had folded itself in half and clamped into storage position, becoming part of the starboard rail. Big Tom peered over the rail and saw nothing but sea. All around. Starboard, backboard, forward, aft.
Use back board when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Back board means (basketball) The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached..
Common synonyms include port, larboard, leeboard, left.
Possible antonyms include starboard.
The L.B.S.C.R. favoured backboards for signals wherever these helped visibility. The Great Eastern also made extensive use of backboards.
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