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Definition of Basketball backboard
1. Noun. A raised vertical board with basket attached; used to play basketball. "He banked the shot off the backboard"
Category relationships: Basketball, Basketball Game, Hoops
Generic synonyms: Game Equipment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Basketball Backboard
Literary usage of Basketball backboard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Celebrate Life!: A Guide for Planning All Night Alcohol edited by Sharon Murphy (1994)
"To make one: use basketball backboard and hoop with net. Mount either version on
PVC pipe or wooden frame (see Potty Toss game). ..."
2. General Plan and Syllabus for Physical Training in the Elementary and by John Francis O'Ryan, New York (State). Military Training Commission, University of the State of New York (1917)
"Basketball, backboard and goal 8 to i0... Jumping standards i... $25... Thirty-five
dollars and a little work will equip any rural school with nine of the ..."
3. Assurer la sécurité du milieu éducatif = by Antoine Bousquet, Programme on Educational Building (1998)
"When a school head is held liable for a basketball backboard that falls and kills
a pupil, the blame is put on human behaviour, not on the equipment at all ..."
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