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Backyard vs Backcard - What's the difference?

backyard | backcard |

As nouns the difference between backyard and backcard

is that backyard is a yard to the rear of a house or similar residence while backcard is the piece of card used as backing for the clear plastic bubble that contains a packaged toy.

backyard

English

Alternative forms

* back-yard, back yard

Noun

(en noun)
  • A yard to the rear of a house or similar residence.
  • (colloquial) A person's neighborhood, or an area nearby to a person's usual residence or place of work and where the person is likely to go.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2005
    • , author=Christopher Kennedy Lawford , title=Symptoms of withdrawal: a memoir of snapshots and redemption , page=18 citation , isbn=0060732482, 9780060732486 , passage=The entire beach was my backyard , from the Hiltons' house in the south all the way to Steele Hunter's house in the north.}}
  • (colloquial) An area nearby to a country or other jurisidiction's legal boundaries, particularly an area in which the country feels it has an interest.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1942
    • , year_published= , author=Wilfrid Hardy Callcott , title=The Caribbean policy of the United States, 1890-1920 , page=343 citation , passage=However, the region was in the United States backyard and Britain should look passively on with acquiescence in whatever policy the United States saw fit to pursue about Mexico.}}

    Related terms

    * front yard

    Usage notes

    Note that backyard'' is usually written as a single word, while ''front yard is always written as two words.

    Derived terms

    * backyard cricket * not in my backyard (NIMBY)

    backcard

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The piece of card used as backing for the clear plastic bubble that contains a packaged toy.
    • Some collectors are interested in the backcards as well as the toys themselves.