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backboard
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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
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Origin of backboard1
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Example Sentences
He could pick teacups off the top of the backboard.
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Or, they could lurk around the backboard, as president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman likes to say, in case his market develops differently than expected.
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Lue wanted a better effort on the backboards, which the Clippers did by collecting 41 rebounds to match Utah’s total.
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And Austin Reaves, standing wide open in the corner, shot a three that hit the side of the backboard.
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Maybe I shouldn’t have: My first five were airballs before I finally hit the backboard.
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