backboard

Meanings

Plural: backboards

Noun

• a raised vertical board with basket attached; used to play basketball
  • "he banked the shot off the backboard"
• a board used to support the back of someone or something
• The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached.
• 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 rebounds.
• A spine board.
• A board placed at the back of a cart, boat, etc.
• The port or larboard side of a ship

Verb

• To place (a patient) on a spine board.

Synonyms

basketball backboard, larboard, leeboard, left, port

Antonyms

starboard