Usually means: Narrow passage between buildings.
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General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. alley: Merriam-Webster
  2. alley: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alley, alley: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. alley: Collins English Dictionary
  5. alley: Vocabulary.com
  6. Alley, alley: Wordnik
  7. alley: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Alley, alley: Wiktionary
  9. alley: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. alley: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. alley: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Alley, alley: Dictionary.com
  13. alley: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. alley: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Alley (company), Alley (surname), Alley, The Alley: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Alley: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. alley: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. alley: Rhymezone
  19. alley: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. alley: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ALLEY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. Alley: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. alley: FreeDictionary.org
  24. alley: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. alley: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. alley: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. alley: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  28. alley: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  29. alley: Merriam-Webster

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. alley: Legal dictionary
  3. alley: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alley: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. alley: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. alley, alley, alley, alley: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Alley: A Seattle Lexicon
  3. Alley: Urban Dictionary

Sports (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Racquetball Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Alley: Tennis Glossary
  3. Squash Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  5. Inter Badminton (No longer online)
  6. Alley: Sports Definitions
  7. Badminton Terms (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. GLOSSARY OF DAIRY TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See alleys as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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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