backhand drive

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   a hard straight return made on the backhand side

   Broaderdrive

Questions about backhand drive

What does backhand drive mean?

backhand drive means "a hard straight return made on the backhand side".

Is backhand drive a common word?

backhand drive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.