back roadnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbæk ˌrəʊd/us/ˈbæk ˌroʊd/C1 a small road that does not have much traffic on it
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Roads: rural & suburban
- beltway
- bypass
- byway
- dirt road
- dirt track
- highway
- main road
- orbital road
- rat run
- relief road
- service road
- stock route
- the highways and byways idiom
- thoroughfare
- through route
- throughway
- thruway
- trunk road
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Examples from literature
- At length, he turned into a back road, and from this to the barely discernible trace of an old log road.
- I came up the back road, but the wheels stuck so in the mud that I had to get out and walk part of the way.
- I drove way round the other way, up the back road, and unloaded him at Henry's house.
- I'll go by the back road.
- This was on a back road, but the way was good and they reached the farm without trouble, excepting that they had to slow down to let a herd of cows pass them.