(chiefly, _, Scotland) A courtyard behind a housing block or tenement building.
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(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.
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(handball) The area farthest from the opponent's goal around the nine-metre line, where a team's defensive centre players are located.
'The locus is Crawford Street?' 'One of the backcourts sir, as far as I understand.'
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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