backstreet
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backstreet
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From back + street.
adjective more backstreet · most backstreet · back-street
- Associated with neighborhoods on back streets, often in older neighborhoods, with poorer residents. The agency was given to some deserving politician who, as he knew nothing at all about Indians and spoke no language except traces of back-street American, would not be prejudiced in Indian affairs and interfere with the highly informed traders.
- 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.
noun backstreets · back-street
- Alternative spelling of back street
Talk about this word "backstreet." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/backstreet. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. backstreet. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/backstreet "backstreet." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/backstreet.
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@misc{backstreet_2026,
title = {backstreet},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/backstreet},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
