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Definition 2025
backcourt
backcourt
English
Noun
backcourt (plural backcourts)
- (chiefly Scotland) A courtyard behind a housing block or tenement building.
- 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 77:
- Some backcourts had wee outside buildings. They had caved-in roofs and tile chimneys broke off and all smashed windows.
- 2011, Brian McHugh, The Guardian, 8 Jan 2011:
- Each unique backcourt was an adventure playground with walls to be climbed, chasms to be leaped and dustbins to be raked through and pillaged.
- 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 77:
- (basketball) A team's defensive half of the court; the part of the court where the other team's basket is located, or the guards playing in that area.