WikiWord

English

backstreet

noun

Meaning

  1. A usually small and narrow street or alley, especially one in inferior or poorer parts of a city, away from the centre.
  2. A secret, clandestine or illegal scene.
  3. Associated with neighborhoods on back streets, often in older neighborhoods, with poorer residents.

Etymology / origin

No prose etymology has been added yet.

No ancestor words have been linked yet.

Related words

Descendant words

No descendant words have been linked yet.

Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
backstreet — meaning and etymology | WikiWord