BASKETBALL BACKBOARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does basketball backboard mean? 

• BASKETBALL BACKBOARD (noun)
  The noun BASKETBALL BACKBOARD has 1 sense:

1. a raised vertical board with basket attached; used to play basketball

  Familiarity information: BASKETBALL BACKBOARD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BASKETBALL BACKBOARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A raised vertical board with basket attached; used to play basketball

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

backboard; basketball backboard

Context example:

he banked the shot off the backboard

Hypernyms ("basketball backboard" is a kind of...):

game equipment (equipment or apparatus used in playing a game)

Domain category:

basketball; basketball game; hoops (a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop)