Anagrams of: BACKCOURTMEN

• a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)

• return by a celebrity to some previously successful activity

• A courtyard behind a housing block or tenement building.

• 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.

• a reduction in quantity or rate

• lying down; in a position of comfort or rest

• a coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue; used in bookbinding and to stiffen clothing

• rigidly formal

• stiffen with or as with buckram

• someone who occupies the same sleeping quarters as yourself