Usually means: Secret or indirect means; clandestine.
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  1. backstairs: Merriam-Webster
  2. backstairs: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. backstairs: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. backstairs: Collins English Dictionary
  5. backstairs: Vocabulary.com
  6. Backstairs, backstairs: Wordnik
  7. backstairs: Wiktionary
  8. backstairs: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. backstairs: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Backstairs, backstairs: Dictionary.com
  11. Backstairs: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. backstairs: Rhymezone
  13. Backstairs: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. backstairs: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. backstairs: FreeDictionary.org
  16. backstairs: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. backstairs: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. backstairs: Merriam-Webster

(Note: See backstair as well.)

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noun:  A staircase at the rear of a building or one normally only used by servants and tradesmen.
noun:  An indirect or furtive means of access or intercourse.
adjective:  Secret or furtive.
adjective:  Scandalous.

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