Usually means: Rebounding surface in basketball games.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word backboard:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. backboard: Merriam-Webster
  2. backboard: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. backboard: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. backboard: Collins English Dictionary
  5. backboard: Vocabulary.com
  6. Backboard, backboard: Wordnik
  7. backboard: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. backboard: Wiktionary
  9. backboard: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. backboard: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. backboard: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Backboard, backboard: Dictionary.com
  13. backboard: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Backboard (basketball), Backboard (tennis), Backboard: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Backboard: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. backboard: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. backboard: Rhymezone
  18. Backboard: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. backboard: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. backboard: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. backboard: FreeDictionary.org
  22. backboard: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. backboard: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. backboard: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. backboard: Merriam-Webster

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. backboard: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. backboard: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Backboard: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Backboard: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (basketball) The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached.
noun:  (tennis) A flat vertical wall with the image of a tennis net drawn or painted on it, designed to practice hitting against such that the ball rebounds.
noun:  (medicine) A spine board.
noun:  A board placed at the back of a cart, boat, etc.
verb:  (medicine, transitive) To place (a patient) on a spine board.
noun:  (nautical) The port or larboard side of a ship

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