Usually means: Narrow street in urban area.
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  1. backstreet: Merriam-Webster
  2. backstreet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. backstreet: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Backstreet, backstreet: Wordnik
  5. backstreet: Wiktionary
  6. backstreet: Dictionary.com
  7. Backstreet (David Sanborn album), Backstreet (album), Backstreet, The Backstreet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. backstreet: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. backstreet: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  10. backstreet: Merriam-Webster

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adjective:  Associated with neighborhoods on back streets, often in older neighborhoods, with poorer residents.
adjective:  (figuratively) Done in poor and unsanitary conditions, secretly and illegally; back-alley.
noun:  Alternative spelling of back street [A usually small and narrow street or alley, especially one in inferior or poorer parts of a city, away from the centre.]

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