English Explanatory Dictionary

backstreet

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Associated with neighborhoods on back streets, often in older neighborhoods, with poorer residents.
  2. Done in poor and unsanitary conditions, secretly and illegally; back-alley.
noun
  1. Alternative spelling of back street.

Word forms

backstreet more backstreet most backstreet back-street backstreets

Etymology

From back + street.

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