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Backboard
Backboard Back"board`, n. [2nd back, n. + board.]
1. A board which supports the back wen one is sitting;
Note: specifically, the board athwart the after part of a
boat.
2. A board serving as the back part of anything, as of a
wagon.
3. A thin stuff used for the backs of framed pictures,
mirrors, etc.
4. A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent
the water from running off the floats or paddies into the
interior of the wheel. --W. Nicholson.
5. A board worn across the back to give erectness to the
figure. --Thackeray.
Meaning of Backboard from wikipedia
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Backboard may
refer to:
Backboard (basketball),
equipment used in
basketball Backboard (tennis)...
- A
backboard shattering (also
known as
backboard breaking or
backboard smash) is an
accident or
stunt in basketball. It
occurs when a
player performs a...
- A
backboard is a
piece of
basketball equipment. It is a
raised vertical board with an
attached basket consisting of a net
suspended from a hoop. It is...
- A
tennis backboard is a
simple wall
usually made from some kind of
fiberboard and
located at a
tennis court. It
should have a
tennis net
either drawn...
-
basket 18
inches (46 cm) in
diameter mounted 10 feet (3.048 m) high to a
backboard at each end of the court),
while preventing the
opposing team from shooting...
- basketball, an air ball is an
unblocked shot that
misses the basket, rim and
backboard entirely. The
Oxford English Dictionary cites earliest printed use of...
-
reducing the
shattering of
backboards. In 1979, Erving's
teammate and
center Darryl Dawkins twice shattered NBA
backboards with
dunks leading to a quickly-enacted...
- shots.
backboard A flat, rigid,
vertical board situated behind the rim of the
basket and to
which the
basket is attached.
Regulation backboards are made...
- the
backboard,
basket ring or
another player. g. A
player is not
allowed to be the
first to
touch his own p****
unless the ball
touches his
backboard, basket...
-
large red
numerals below the game
clock on a
display mounted atop each
backboard. In some
collegiate and
amateur facilities this
display might be located...
