Backstreet
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Backstreet is an adjective meaning Associated with neighborhoods on back streets, often in older neighborhoods, with poorer residents.
Meaning
Associated with neighborhoods on back streets, often in older neighborhoods, with poorer residents.
More Meanings
- (figuratively) Done in poor and unsanitary conditions, secretly and illegally; back-alley.
- Alternative spelling of back street.
Example Sentences
The results of self-induced and backstreet abortions come to our hospitals for the damage to be put right.
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.
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.
Word Forms
- back-street
- backstreets
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include abortionist, abortionists, crosstown, brookside, urban, suburbanised.
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