backboard
(noun) a board used to support the back of someone or something
backboard, basketball backboard
(noun) a raised vertical board with basket attached; used to play basketball; “he banked the shot off the backboard”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
backboard (plural backboards)
(basketball) The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached.
(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 bounces back.
(medicine, first aid) A spine board.
A board placed at the back of a cart, boat, etc.
backboard (usually uncountable, plural backboards)
(nautical) The port or larboard side of a ship
Synonyms: larboard, port
Source: Wiktionary
Back"board`, n. Etym: [2nd back, n. + board.]
1. A board which supports the back wen one is sitting;
Note: specifically, the board athwart the after part of a boat.
2. A board serving as the back part of anything, as of a wagon.
3. A thin stuff used for the backs of framed pictures, mirrors, etc.
4. A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of the wheel. W. Nicholson.
5. A board worn across the back to give erectness to the figure. Thackeray.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
12 February 2025
(noun) an abnormal enlargement of the colon; can be congenital (as in Hirschsprung’s disease) or acquired (as when children refuse to defecate)
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
