backstreet

adj

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.”

   “She's been living in her uptown world / I bet she's never had a backstreet guy / I bet her momma never told her why”

   “They made these things for almost nothing, cutting them out of remnants they scrambled for in backstreet fabric outlets.”

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.”

noun

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of back street.