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Definition of Backstreet
1. Adjective. Associated with neighborhoods on back streets, often in older neighborhoods, with poorer residents. ¹
2. Noun. (alternative spelling of back street) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Backstreet
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backstreet
Literary usage of Backstreet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Pembroke, N. H.: 1730-1895 by Nathan Franklin Carter, Trueworthy Ladd Fowler (1895)
"The bedstead and spoke manufactories at backstreet burned. 18.VJ. Nov. 3. ...
М»y 27. .lohn Noyes killed in the saw-mill at backstreet. 1861, Apr. 12. ..."
2. South African Social Attitudes: Changing Times, Diverse Voices by Stephen P. Rule, Udesh Pillay, Benjamin Roberts (2007)
"'backstreet' abortions are thus more common amongst the latter (Westmore 1977: 14).
In South Africa, more than three-quarters (76 per cent) of individuals ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1833)
"Saw prisoner again about five o'clock going toward backstreet, and a very few
persons with him. They were not saying any thing. ..."
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