backstreet

Word family

back·street1 /ˈbækstriːt/ adjectiveadj [only before noun]

SCLILLEGALbackstreet activities are done in a secret or illegal way, and are often done badly 秘密的，私下的，偷偷摸摸的〔通常指处理手法低劣〕

a backstreet abortion

非法堕胎

Examples from the Corpus

backstreet• A hot new pachinko machine from a backstreet maker in Osaka has taken the underworld by storm.

backstreet2, back street noun [countableC]

a small quiet street that is away from the main part of a town 后街，偏僻街道

Examples from the Corpus

backstreet• The other provides amazingly quick service - from an incomplete concrete house frame in a backstreet.• Three beer-befuddled construction workers played softball with my head in a backstreet on the mistaken assumption that I was Tom Tunney.• Frankie had left home and was now living in lodgings in a little backstreet near the pub they were sitting in.• One hour later the sonorous tones of Dame Melba's singing resonated through a little backstreet near the river.• From there, a quiet backstreet led to the rear entrance of her apartment block.

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Corpus

BNC: 24348 COCA: 27177

backstreet

Streets where people live: Ave, Avenue, backstreet...

Secret, secretive and in secret: secret, secretive, surreptitious...

Illegal or dishonest: illegal, unlawful, shady...