Usually means: Narrow passageways between buildings, hidden.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. alleys: Merriam-Webster
  2. alleys, alleys: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alleys: Collins English Dictionary
  4. alleys: Vocabulary.com
  5. Alley's, Alleys, alley's, alleys: Wordnik
  6. alleys: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Alleys, alleys: Wiktionary
  8. Alleys, alleys: Dictionary.com
  9. alleys: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Alleys: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Alleys: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Alleys: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. alleys: FreeDictionary.org
  14. alleys: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. alleys: Legal dictionary
  2. alleys: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alleys: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alleys: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alleys: Idioms

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Alley)

noun:  A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots of buildings.
noun:  (baseball) The area between the outfielders.
noun:  (bowling) An establishment where bowling is played.
noun:  (bowling) An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
noun:  (tennis) The extra area between the sidelines or tramlines on a tennis court that is used for doubles matches.
noun:  A walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes.
noun:  A passageway between rows of pews in a church.
noun:  (perspective drawing) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.
noun:  The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.
noun:  (informal, rare) A group of clowns; the collective noun for clowns.
noun:  A marble (small ball used in games).
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A female given name.
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