"back street" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: back streets [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} back street (plural back streets)
  1. A usually small and narrow street or alley, especially one in inferior or poorer parts of a city, away from the centre. Derived forms: back-street abortion Translations (small and narrow street): 背街 (bèijiē) (Chinese Mandarin), baggade [common-gender] (Danish), achterafstraat (Dutch), achterafstraatje [neuter] (Dutch), sivukatu (Finnish), Seitengasse [feminine] (German), cúlsráid [feminine] (Irish), 裏通り (uradōri) (alt: うらどおり) (Japanese), bakgate [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), bakgate [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), закоу́лок (zakoúlok) [masculine] (Russian), глуха́я у́лица (gluxája úlica) [feminine] (Russian), задво́рки (zadvórki) [feminine] (Russian), callejuela [feminine] (Spanish), callejón [masculine] (Spanish), bakgata [common-gender] (Swedish), gränd [common-gender] (Swedish), stryd gefn (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-back_street-en-noun-fTeDQQH5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 74 26 Disambiguation of 'small and narrow street': 100 0
  2. A secret, clandestine or illegal scene.
    Sense id: en-back_street-en-noun-H-1136gt

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    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "small and narrow street",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
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      "tags": [
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      ],
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    },
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      "sense": "small and narrow street",
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    },
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      "sense": "small and narrow street",
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    },
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      "sense": "small and narrow street",
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      ],
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      "tags": [
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    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "small and narrow street",
      "tags": [
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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "small and narrow street",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "small and narrow street",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "bakgata"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "small and narrow street",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "gränd"
    },
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      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "small and narrow street",
      "word": "stryd gefn"
    }
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