Definitions
A courtyard behind a housing block or tenement building.
Word origin
From back + court.
Used in a sentence
“Some backcourts had wee outside buildings. They had caved-in roofs and tile chimneys broke off and all smashed windows.”
“Each unique backcourt was an adventure playground with walls to be climbed, chasms to be leaped and dustbins to be raked through and pillaged.”
“'The locus is Crawford Street?' 'One of the backcourts sir, as far as I understand.'”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Guards' area in basketball”9 letters
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