basketball backboard

1. 1.

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

   “he banked the shot off the backboard”

   Synonymsbackboard

   Broadergame equipment

   basketball

Questions about basketball backboard

What does basketball backboard mean?

basketball backboard means "a raised vertical board with basket attached; used to play basketball".

What is another word for basketball backboard?

Close synonyms include backboard. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is basketball backboard a common word?

basketball backboard 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.