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backboard
/ ˈbækˌbɔːd /
noun
- a board that is placed behind something to form or support its back
- a board worn to straighten or support the back, as after surgery
- (in basketball) a flat upright surface supported on a high frame, under which the basket is attached
Word History and Origins
Origin of backboard1
Example Sentences
Drives to the basket that typically produced layups ended in wild attempts that thumped off the backboard.
As the basket’s kindness mounted, Rocket Watts shot from outside the arc to the right of the top, and it caromed around the rim and backboard some until it, too, dropped.
When Adebayo dished the ball to Heat sharpshooter Tyler Herro, Hachimura switched onto Herro and got a hand in his face without fouling before Herro sent a desperation shot clanking against the backboard.
For Harrington, it was the culmination of a long effort that included a fall on El Cap in 2019, which sent her to the hospital strapped to a backboard.
Ramos was still showing no signs of life when they got him on a backboard and into the ambulance.
One of the men jumped down, and fumbled at the iron pins which kept the backboard of the cart in its place.
Aid with two well-directed taps he knocked the pins out of their sockets, and let down the backboard of the cart.
Just off an old drain I found an overturned wagon with a loophole cut through the backboard.
And the men let down the backboard, and they put in all their things: all their poles and the bars and the shovel.
Oftener a plank of wood was cut into the desired shape as a frame or mould, and fastened to a heavy backboard.
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