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back·board (-bôrd′)

noun

  1. a board that forms or supports the back of something
  2. ☆ Basketball a flat, rigid piece of material, often glass and usually rectangular, to which the basket is attached

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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