单词 | back-alley |
释义 | back-alley[ bak-al-ee ] / ˈbækˈæl i / adjectivedirty, unprepossessing, sordid, or clandestine: back-alley morals; back-alley political schemes. Origin of back-alleyAn Americanism dating back to 1860–65 Words nearby back-alleyBacillus thuringiensis, bacitracin, back, backache, back against the wall, back-alley, back anchor, back and fill, back-and-forth, back and to, back away Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for back-alley
Idioms and Phrases with back-alleyback alley see under back street. The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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