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backstreets

n. (plural of backstreet English)

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Backstreets

"Backstreets" is a song by Bruce Springsteen from the album Born to Run, which was released in 1975. In the original vinyl release, it concludes side one of the record.

Usage examples of "backstreets".

The attackers fled through the backstreets to Whittier Boulevard, and trashed the street again.

The floodlights had given the backstreets the brightness of Las Vegas.

I search the literary backstreets for new blood, and what I find rarely holds promise.

On such nights, the dingy dwellings of Spittalfields and Whitechapel still seem to belong to the Huguenot silk-weavers, the prim backstreets of Kensington appear eternally Edwardian, and the houses of the Chelsea embankment, primped with gothic trimmings and standing in Sunday finery like a charabanc of ruddy-faced matrons, remain the province of the Pre-Raphaelites.

The backstreets were just dark enough to cause anxious glances over the shoulder.

Soon the Cats were entirely disorganized, chasing after this beggar or that as they disappeared into the crowded maze of backstreets without a trace.

I look, wandering the backstreets of Dacca, along a wider watercourse.