Meaning of BACKSTAIRS
| Pronunciation: | | 'bak'stehrz
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- [n] a second staircase at the rear of a building
- [adj] secret and sly or sordid; "backstairs gossip"; "his low backstairs cunning"- A.L.Guerard; "backstairs intimacies"; "furtive behavior"
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| | Synonyms: | | backstair, covert, furtive |
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| | See Also: | | staircase, stairs, stairway, steps | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Back"stairs`\, Backstair \Back"stair`\, a.
Private; indirect; secret; intriguing; -- as if finding
access by the back stairs.
A backstairs influence. --Burke.
Female caprice and backstairs influence. --Trevelyan.
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| | Related Terms: | | back-door, clandestine, covert, feline, furtive, hidlings, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, privy, quiet, shifty, skulking, slinking, slinky, sly, sneaking, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, under-the-counter, under-the-table, unobtrusive |
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