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View definitions for back street

back street

noun as in alley

noun as in back road

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He said the incident happened at the Hope of Hart children's club, which is housed in a former warehouse building on a back street.

From BBC

Harris Steinberg, 57, standing at the counter of his auto parts shop, said that everything along Kensington Avenue — the tents, dealers and stray needles — was already moving to the neighborhood’s back streets.

A hair salon in a Kharkiv back street is one of many small businesses with a generator whirring noisily outside the door.

From BBC

“I was calling all around the world, to the back streets of the Indian subcontinent,” Joe Allbaugh, then the head Oklahoma’s prison system, said at the time.

The Christmas carol procession lurches its way through Jaranwala's back streets, gathering singers as we go.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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