different between backstreet vs sidestreet
backstreet
English
Alternative forms
- back-street
Etymology
back +? street
Adjective
backstreet (comparative more backstreet, superlative most backstreet)
- Associated with neighborhoods on back streets, often in older neighborhoods, with poorer residents.
- 1949, Sinclair Lewis, The God-Seeker, New York: Popular Library, Chapter 18, p. 94,
- 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.
- 1989, Carol Shields, "Times of Sickness and Health" in The Collected Stories, Random House Canada, 2004, p. 349,
- They made these things for almost nothing, cutting them out of remnants they scrambled for in backstreet fabric outlets.
- 1949, Sinclair Lewis, The God-Seeker, New York: Popular Library, Chapter 18, p. 94,
- (figuratively) Done in poor and unsanitary conditions, secretly and illegally; back-alley.
- 1965, Renée Short, Hansard, 15 June, 1965, [1]
- The results of self-induced and backstreet abortions come to our hospitals for the damage to be put right.
- 1965, Renée Short, Hansard, 15 June, 1965, [1]
Further reading
- “backstreet abortion” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- “backstreet”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “backstreet” (US) / “backstreet” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
Noun
backstreet (plural backstreets)
- Alternative spelling of back street
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sidestreet
English
Noun
sidestreet (plural sidestreets)
- Alternative form of side street
Anagrams
- streetside
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