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back street

noun as in alley

noun as in back road

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Saturday morning in a back street in south London - and I am leaning on a metal railing.

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With the man's son directing them, the HTS security force drives to one of the poorer neighbourhoods, weaving through a warren of back streets, past scrapyards and middens.

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He said the incident happened at the Hope of Hart children's club, which is housed in a former warehouse building on a back street.

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Harris Steinberg, 57, standing at the counter of his auto parts shop, said that everything along Kensington Avenue — the tents, dealers and stray needles — was already moving to the neighborhood’s back streets.

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A hair salon in a Kharkiv back street is one of many small businesses with a generator whirring noisily outside the door.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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