Usually means: Tennis stroke using reverse hand.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word backhand:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. backhand: Merriam-Webster
  2. backhand: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. backhand: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. backhand: Collins English Dictionary
  5. backhand: Vocabulary.com
  6. Backhand, backhand: Wordnik
  7. backhand: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. backhand: Wiktionary
  9. backhand: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. backhand: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. backhand: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Backhand, backhand: Dictionary.com
  13. backhand: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Backhand (album), Backhand (comics), Backhand: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Backhand: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. backhand: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. backhand: Rhymezone
  18. backhand, backhand(slag) (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. backhand: FreeDictionary.org
  20. backhand: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. backhand: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. backhand: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. backhand: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. backhand: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. backhand: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. backhand: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. backhand: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. backhand: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. THE BACKHAND, backhand: Urban Dictionary

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Racquetball Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Backhand: Tennis Glossary
  3. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  4. Inter Badminton (No longer online)
  5. Backhand: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (tennis) 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:  Handwriting that leans to the left.
noun:  (Ultimate Frisbee) 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.
noun:  The reverse side of the human hand.
noun:  (surfing) The hand towards the back of the board.
verb:  To execute a backhand stroke or throw.
verb:  To slap with the back of one's hand.
adjective:  (of handwriting) Slanting to the left.
adjective:  (of strokes or throws) In the backhand style.
adjective:  (ice hockey, of a play) Using the back side of the hockey stick.

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