"backcourt" meaning in English

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        "1": "en",
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  "etymology_text": "From back + court.",
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    {
      "form": "backcourts",
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        "plural"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 77",
          "text": "Some backcourts had wee outside buildings. They had caved-in roofs and tile chimneys broke off and all smashed windows.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 January 8, Brian McHugh, The Guardian",
          "text": "Each unique backcourt was an adventure playground with walls to be climbed, chasms to be leaped and dustbins to be raked through and pillaged.",
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          "ref": "2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 16",
          "text": "'The locus is Crawford Street?' 'One of the backcourts sir, as far as I understand.'",
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        "A courtyard behind a housing block or tenement building."
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          "courtyard",
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        "(chiefly Scotland) A courtyard behind a housing block or tenement building."
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          "ref": "2009 January 2, Howard Beck, “Knicks Will Continue to Be Walsh’s Work in Progress in 2009”, in New York Times",
          "text": "So the Knicks, who began the season with a depleted frontcourt, have muddled through the last six weeks with a depleted backcourt as well.",
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        "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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        "(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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        "(chiefly Scotland) A courtyard behind a housing block or tenement building."
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