Usually means: Secondary road, not main thoroughfare.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. back-street, back street: Collins English Dictionary
  2. back street: Vocabulary.com
  3. back-street: Wordnik
  4. back street: Wiktionary
  5. back street: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. back-street, back street: Dictionary.com
  7. Back Street (novel), Back Street: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. back street: Rhymezone
  9. back street: FreeDictionary.org
  10. back street: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. back street: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. back street: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. back street: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See back_streets as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (back street)

noun:  A usually small and narrow street or alley, especially one in inferior or poorer parts of a city, away from the centre.
noun:  A secret, clandestine or illegal scene.

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