backway

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noun

A back alley.

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Meanings

nounbackway (plural backways)

plural backways

  1. A back alley.

    Gliding along the silent streets, and holding his course where they were darkest and most gloomy, the man who had left the widow's house crossed London Bridge, and arriving in the City, plunged into the backways, lanes, and courts […]

    1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. (please specify the chapter number)”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
back alleyback lane

Origin

From back + way.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

backway. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/backway

MLA

“backway.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/backway. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “backway,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/backway.

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