Usually means: Rear half of the basketball court.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. backcourt: Merriam-Webster
  2. backcourt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. backcourt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. backcourt: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Backcourt, backcourt: Wordnik
  6. backcourt: Wiktionary
  7. backcourt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. backcourt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. backcourt: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. backcourt: Dictionary.com
  11. Backcourt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. backcourt: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. backcourt: Merriam-Webster

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Inter Badminton (No longer online)
  4. Backcourt: Sports Definitions
  5. Badminton Terms (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (backcourt)

noun:  (chiefly Scotland) A courtyard behind a housing block or tenement building.
noun:  (basketball) A team's defensive half of the court; the part of the court where the other team's basket is located, or the guards playing in that area.

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