Backboard

Quick meaning: Backboard is a noun meaning (basketball) The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached.

Meaning

(basketball) The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached.

More Meanings

1. (medicine) A spine board.
2. A board placed at the back of a cart, boat, behind a signal, etc.
3. (medicine, transitive) To place (a patient) on a spine board.
4. (nautical) The port or larboard side of a ship
5. (tennis) A flat vertical wall with the image of a tennis net drawn or painted on it, designed to practice hitting against such that the ball rebounds.

Example Sentences

He […]had ridden the remainder of the way clinging to the backboard of a cotton wagon.

The L.B.S.C.R. favoured backboards for signals wherever these helped visibility. The Great Eastern also made extensive use of backboards.

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.

Word Forms

• backboards
• backboarding
• backboarded

Synonyms for backboard

Depending on context, synonyms include port, larboard, leeboard, left.

Antonyms for backboard

Common opposites include starboard.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include glass, board, bucket, basket, hoop, post.

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