backstreet
noun
- small street, often in an old or poor neighborhood of a city
Wiktionary
adj
Etymology: From back + street.
- Associated with neighborhoods on back streets, often in older neighborhoods, with poorer residents.
“The agency was given to some deserving politician who, as he knew nothing at all about Indians and spoke no language except traces of back-street American, would not be prejudiced in Indian affairs and interfere with the highly informed traders.”
“She's been living in her uptown world / I bet she's never had a backstreet guy / I bet her momma never told her why”
- Done in poor and unsanitary conditions, secretly and illegally; back-alley.
“The results of self-induced and backstreet abortions come to our hospitals for the damage to be put right.”
noun
Etymology: From back + street.
- Alternative spelling of back street.