backboard
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- noun
- /ˈbækˌbɔrd/
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tablero de baloncesto
- She aimed for the backboard to give her shot a better chance of going in.
She's distracted, completely misses, like it hits the backboard really fucking hard, right?
- She's distracted, completely misses, like it hits the backboard really fucking hard, right?
- If it comes in at an angle to the backboard, it'll reflect off the backboard at that same angle.
- She's just been sent to a basketball team upstate where she can run around and trampoline dunk on that great backboard in the sky.
Examples
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I mean, we're talking like basketball backboard height, like halfway up the backboard.
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The city was deserted, with only a boy her age practicing foul shots at a netless backboard in a park.
Fiction book (1999) -
No, way off the backboard first.
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Legend has it, but not confirmed, that he once touched the top of the backboard in practice.
Blog text (7) -
Off the backboard, and James slams it home.
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And Rhett, if your bags hit the backboard, they do not count for any points.
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We fought for rebounds under the backboard.
Fiction book (1992) -
His shot bounced off the backboard and was grabbed by Gray at the 3-point line.
Blog text (25) -
He shattered the backboard?
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Backboards with baskets were on the walls; also lots of college pennants and photographs of athletes.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
A raised rectangular board behind a hoop that players bounce the ball off to score
Compounds
A raised rectangular board behind a hoop that players bounce the ball off to score
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Morphology
Etymology
Backboard is simply back + board, meaning 'a board at the back'. So, in basketball a backboard is the board behind the hoop that players bounce the ball off to help make a shot.