backstairs (n.)

  1. a second staircase at the rear of a building

    backstairs (adj.)

  1. secret and sly or sordid; backstairs gossip; his low backstairs cunning- A.L.Guerard; backstairs intimacies; furtive behavior

    [ Syn: backstair , furtive ]

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