[
US
/ˈbækˌbɔɹd/
]
[ UK /bˈækbɔːd/ ]
[ UK /bˈækbɔːd/ ]
NOUN
- a board used to support the back of someone or something
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a raised vertical board with basket attached; used to play basketball
he banked the shot off the backboard
How To Use backboard In A Sentence
- he banked the shot off the backboard
- But definitely by the time Larry Brown had finished his postgame whining, it was as clear as a freshly squeegeed backboard: Someone forgot to tell the Pacers that they're supposed to be honing their golf games by now.
- Starting at the top of the Salem high chest, the builder extended the backboards to cover the opening at the rear of the case, so it is not possible to see a wall through the two round apertures in the tyrnpanum board.
- One of the only drawbacks of a glass backboard is the possibility of breakage. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1150
- Main structured items are: JDQM full face mask, air supply valve, pressure regulator valve, backboard, pressure gauge, alarming whistle, medium pressure tube, carbon fiber composite cylinder, etc.
- I bent my neck to watch the ball wham into the backboard, bounce a few times around the hoop - then went in.
- I was strapped onto a backboard and placed on the front of a boat with an injured police lieutenant, a firefighter, and a few walking wounded.
- They lifted her gently and put her on a backboard.
- He took him to a bar in Portland where an eleven-foot Atlantic marlin hung on an oak backboard. A FEW SHORT NOTES ON TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES
- Michael leered closer, pressing him against the backboard.