back street

1. 1.

   a narrow street with walls on both sides

   Synonymsalleyalleyway

   Broaderstreet

Questions about back street

What does back street mean?

back street means "a narrow street with walls on both sides".

What is another word for back street?

Close synonyms include alley, alleyway. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is back street a common word?

back street is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.