0 a narrow passage behind or between buildings, especially in the older and poorer areas of a town or city:
In the narrow back alley behind the house are piled quantities of garbage.
If those constables did that up a back alley, people might say that it was worse.
We are not back alley, harum-scarum politicians.
Particular issues have arisen with personal security and public order problems in some housing schemes using back alley or back garden type links.
They then pull into a back alley, get out of the car, and commence to play the song on the street.
She had escaped as a puppy, and had been kept in a back alley by a shopkeeper until she was six months old.
The campus itself expanded in the 1970s with a massive highrise inserted in the back alley of old surgery clinic.
Hatami advised him to try the back alley, by which he meant the path to the guest house, beyond the main house.
