1. a spinning motion imparted to a ball that causes it to rotate backward relative to its direction of travel
Usage: sports

Examples

• The tennis player hit the ball with backspin to make it drop quickly.
• Adding backspin to a golf shot helps the ball stop on the green.
• The pitcher’s curveball had tremendous backspin.
• She practiced putting backspin on her basketball shots.
• The ping-pong ball’s backspin made it bounce backward off the table.
• His serve had so much backspin that it barely bounced forward.