backstreet

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Alternative spelling of back street. alt-of,alternative
形容词 adj.
  1. 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.
  2. Done in poor and unsanitary conditions, secretly and illegally; back-alley. figuratively
    — The results of self-induced and backstreet abortions come to our hospitals for the damage to be put right.

词形变化

more backstreet comparative most backstreet superlative back-street alternative backstreets plural back-street alternative

词源

词源 1
From back + street.
词源 2
From back + street.
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