backstreet
The English word “backstreet” has 2 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Associated with neighborhoods on back streets, often in older neighborhoods, with poorer residents.
- Done in poor and unsanitary conditions, secretly and illegally; back-alley.
Etymology
From back + street.
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