back alley
See also: back-alley
English

A back alley in Devonport
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Noun
back alley (plural back alleys)
- An alleyway that runs behind a row of houses, or between rows of houses
- 2016 May 23, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Apocalypse pits the strengths of the X-Men series against the weaknesses”, in The Onion AV Club:
- Apocalypse also happens to be a Fagin figure, shuffling around the back alleys of Cairo, where he makes the weather-controlling pickpocket Storm (Alexandra Shipp) his first follower by offering her baubles.
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- (slang, euphemistic) The anus.
- 1991, Mack Tanner, The Stalker (page 178)
- Nobody goes up my back alley without a rubber on and I don't do heroin, so what's the worry?
- 2018, Ralph Breaks the Internet (film)
- RALPH: This dress is not made for a big boy. It's going right up the back alley there.
- 1991, Mack Tanner, The Stalker (page 178)
Usage notes
- In the United Kingdom, a residence or other premises whose only entrance is on a back alley will have an address of the form "Back of [number] Something Street", where the row of houses is in "Something Street".
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