backstreet

noun

back·​street ˈbak-ˈstrēt 

often attributive

: a street away from the main thoroughfares

Examples of backstreet in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Then on the way to the airport, there was a traffic jam that had my driver cutting through backstreets. — Mike Albo, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2026

By day, sleek professionals with headphones on charge across the major intersections on their way to work, and by night twenty-somethings slink around the winding backstreets with wide-legged pants and perfect glass skin. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 May 2026

Every year, on Mardi Gras morning, something extraordinary emerges from the backstreets of New Orleans – groups of Black revelers most tourists will never see. — Nichole Marks, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026

None of that, however, helps either of us to know where to start with choosing one of the 17 different varieties of cider listed on the blackboard in a backstreet pub that first opened its doors in 1834. — Stuart James, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for backstreet

• amit
• athlete
• backseat
• blackfeet
• broadsheet
• browbeat
• buckwheat
• compete
• compleat
• complete
• conceit
• concrete