backhand
UK/ˈbækhænd/
backhand noun: a stroke made across the chest from the off-hand side to the racquet hand side; a stroke during which the back of the hand faces the shot.
Noun
backhand (plural backhands)
- A stroke made across the chest from the off-hand side to the racquet hand side; a stroke during which the back of the hand faces the shot.
- She has a mean backhand.
- Antonyms:
- forehand
- Handwriting that leans to the left.
- It was written in a shaky backhand.
- The standard throw; a throw during which the disc begins on the off-hand side and travels across the chest to be released from the opposite side.
- The back of the hand: the reverse side (dorsal side) of the human hand or other primate hand.
- Antonyms:
- palm
- The hand towards the back of the board.
- Antonyms:
- forehand
Verb
backhand (third-person singular simple present backhands, present participle backhanding, simple past and past participle backhanded)
- To execute a backhand stroke or throw.
- To slap with the back of one's hand.
- During the boxing match, I accidentally backhanded my opponent.
- While Joe is driving, Bob gets upset and wants to go back to set up. Bob and Joe argue for a few seconds. Then, Bob grabs the wheel and nearly causes us to hit a tree. In response, Joe backhands Bob and tells him to immediately stop or he will get us killed. Bob says that he was just trying to get...2023 May 23, Alison Green, anonymous quotee, “my coworker got drunk and punched another coworker in the parking lot”, in Ask a Manager (blog), archived from the original on 11 Dec 2024
Adjective
backhand (comparative more backhand, superlative most backhand)
- Slanting to the left.
- In great confusion, Gordon accepted the letter, broke its small crested seal, and began reading the neat back-hand scrawl.1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XIII, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 135
- In the backhand style.
- Using the back side of the hockey stick.
- He scored on a backhand shot.
backhand meaning in Bengali
backhand in Bengali
- বাম হাতের আঘাত
Examples of backhand in a sentence
- Kyrgios hits a thumping inside-out forehand to Raonic's weaker wing, the backhand.
- He'd gotten into tremendous shape so that he could run around his backhand and avoid hitting it altogether.
- Neither possesses a serve fast enough to dent a radar gun and their stabby backhands resemble karate chops.
Antonyms of backhand
Forms of backhand
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | backhands |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | backhands |
| present participle | backhanding |
| past participle | backhanded |
| past | backhanded |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more backhand |
| superlative | most backhand |
Origin of backhand
From back + hand.
Questions about backhand
- What does backhand mean?
- Backhand means a stroke made across the chest from the off-hand side to the racquet hand side; a stroke during which the back of the hand faces the shot.
- What is backhand in Bengali?
- Backhand in Bengali is বাম হাতের আঘাত. See Backhand meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is backhand?
- Backhand can be a noun, a verb or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce backhand?
- Backhand is pronounced /ˈbækhænd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of backhand?
- The plural of backhand is backhands.
Words near backhand in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: backhand (page history and authors); backhand (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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