Usually means: Secret or indirect, typically covert.
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  1. backstair: Collins English Dictionary
  2. backstair: Vocabulary.com
  3. backstair: Wordnik
  4. backstair: Wiktionary
  5. Backstair, backstair: Dictionary.com
  6. Backstair: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. backstair: Rhymezone
  8. Backstair: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. backstair: FreeDictionary.org
  10. backstair: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. backstair: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. backstair: Legal dictionary

(Note: See backstairs as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (backstair)

▸ adjective:  clandestine, secret or furtive
▸ noun:  The backstairs (stairs at the rear of a building).

Similar:
covert, furtive, closet, split-level, walk-up, tuckaway, stabled, recessed, lockside, back-to-back, more...

Opposite:
front stair, main stair, grand stair

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Similar:
covert, furtive, closet, split-level, walk-up, tuckaway, stabled, recessed, lockside, back-to-back, more...

Opposite:
front stair, main stair, grand stair



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