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backstreet

adj

Etymology

From back + street.

  1. derived from *sterh₃-✻
  2. derived from strātus
  3. inherited from *strātu✻ — “street”
  4. inherited from strēt
  5. inherited from strete
  6. compounded as backstreet — “back + street”

Definitions

  1. Associated with neighborhoods on back streets, often in older neighborhoods, with poorer…

    Associated with neighborhoods on back streets, often in older neighborhoods, with poorer residents.

    • She's been living in her uptown world / I bet she's never had a backstreet guy / I bet her momma never told her why
    • They made these things for almost nothing, cutting them out of remnants they scrambled for in backstreet fabric outlets.

  2. Done in poor and unsanitary conditions, secretly and illegally

    Done in poor and unsanitary conditions, secretly and illegally; back-alley.

    • The results of self-induced and backstreet abortions come to our hospitals for the damage to be put right.

  3. Alternative spelling of back street.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA