Associations to the word «Backspin»
Noun
Adverb
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Wiktionary
BACKSPIN, noun. Spin applied to a ball in order to slow it, change its flight, or stop it when it lands.
BACKSPIN, verb. (transitive) To spin (a ball) with this motion.
Dictionary definition
BACKSPIN, noun. Spin (usually of a moving ball) that retards or reverses the forward motion.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.