Usually means: Narrow street behind main roads.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. back-alley: Merriam-Webster
  2. back alley: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. back-alley, back-alley, back alley: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Back-alley, back-alley: Wordnik
  5. back-alley, back alley: Wiktionary
  6. back-alley: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. back-alley, back alley: Dictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. back alley: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. back alley: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Back Alley: Card Games
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  3. Badminton Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (back alley)

▸ noun:  An alleyway that runs behind a row of houses, or between rows of houses.
▸ noun:  (slang, euphemistic) The anus.

Similar:
back lane, back alleyway, backway, bylane, backlet, alley, alleyway, back passage, back, close, more...

Opposite:
main street, thoroughfare, boulevard, avenue

Types:
dead end, narrow, cobblestone, dark, dirty, graffiti-covered, abandoned, hidden, more...

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Similar:
back lane, back alleyway, backway, bylane, backlet, alley, alleyway, back passage, back, close, more...

Opposite:
main street, thoroughfare, boulevard, avenue

Types:
dead end, narrow, cobblestone, dark, dirty, graffiti-covered, abandoned, hidden, more...



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