English Dictionary

backstreet

adj

Associated with neighborhoods on back streets, often in older neighborhoods, with poorer residents. / (figuratively) Done in poor and unsanitary conditions, secretly and illegally; back-alley.

I love exploring the backstreet neighborhoods of the city.

意味（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.

意味（2）

(figuratively) Done in poor and unsanitary conditions, secretly and illegally; back-alley.

The results of self-induced and backstreet abortions come to our hospitals for the damage to be put right.