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Where some police chases end, in movies
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alleyway
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a narrow street with walls on both sides [syn: alley , back street ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A narrow street formed by the proximity of adjacent buildings. 2 A passage between two rows of cabins in a ship.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE narrow ▪ Beyond them other streets with narrow rear alleyways and outside lavatories stretched all the way to the main road. ▪ A beggar lad showed us the house in a dank, narrow alleyway where Mistress Hopkins lived. ...
Usage examples of alleyway.
Even in the lower town sprawled around the base of the acropolis there were no narrow alleyways or tumbledown blocks of apartments, for everything was obviously subject to a rigid system of surveys and building codes.
The backstairs were dark and uncarpeted, and then they were in an alleyway which led to Clarges Street and thence to Piccadilly.
Frank had some relatives there, and we stopped at their row house and played boccie ball in an alleyway with a bunch of his old goombahs who wore baggy pants and three-day whiskers.
I laid some brass on the deck with a perp in a Chinatown alleyway, then I went swimming ninety feet underwater, then was point on a takedown team.
Most of the grog shops were open, barkeeps dispensing Injun whisky from barrels to long-haired flatboat men across planks laid on barrels, white men grouped around makeshift tables playing cards, and small groups of black men visible in alleyways, on their knees in the mud and weeds, shooting dice.
Not quite as raffish as Greenwich Village in its heyday, nor as freewheeling as the East Village during the Sixties, SoHo is a yeasty warren of streets, unexpected alleyways, and old two- to five-story brick buildings.
Curling with an intricate aimlessness curiously like that of such a streamer, it tantalized the silvery fingers of a thousand relays, saucily evaded the glances of ten thousand electric eyes, impishly darted down a narrow black alleyway of memory banks, and, reaching the center of the cube, suddenly emerged into a small room where a suave fat man in shorts sat drinking beer.
Occasionally he inspected the western alleyway leading from the Chinese border to Inchon, hoping to find one of the wooden Slow Boys sneaking south, but he detected nothing.
The mists receded behind her, and she found herself standing in the rain in an alleyway that ran like a deep crevice between two towering buildings.
A block farther, he finally had to stop and slip down as alleyway to relieve himself-that would have been peacebreaking in Fairhaven.
Unlike the Redmond chapterhouse, the Puyallup building was in the middle of the block, which meant that prospective patients had to make their way along fifty meters of darkened alleyway to reach their destination.
Cosgrove and Harris Tanana ran into dark alleyways on either side of the vine-and-trellis-covered restaurant.
They walked down the hill into the poorest section of the town, into a tangle of alleyways where half-dressed children played in the filth that was hurled from the night-buckets into the roadway.
Musicians searched the alleyways for the child, but their search here was a fruitless one.
The patrol was scattering, slipping back into the shadows and then into the dark alleyways beyond.