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back alley

noun

Definitions

  1. An alleyway that runs behind a row of houses, or between rows of houses.

    • Near-synonym: bylane
    • Apocalypse also happens to be a Fagin figure, shuffling around the back alleys of Cairo, where he makes the weather-controlling pickpocket Storm (Alexandra Shipp) his first follower by offering her baubles.

  2. The anus.

    • Nobody goes up my back alley without a rubber on and I don't do heroin, so what's the worry?
    • RALPH: This dress is not made for a big boy. It's going right up the back alley there.

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