noun

backboard

noun

The flat vertical panel behind a basketball hoop that the ball can bounce off.

"The shot bounced off the backboard and dropped in."

A rigid board used to immobilize and carry an injured person.

"Paramedics strapped him to a backboard before moving him."

verb

To secure an injured patient onto a spine board.

"The crew backboarded the crash victim before lifting him into the ambulance."

How to Use Backboard

Learner’s notes

In plain EnglishThe panel behind a basketball hoop, or a rigid board used to carry an injured person safely.

backboarded past tense, backboards plural, backboards plural, backboards singular

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The shot bounced off the _____ and dropped in.

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