[
UK
/bˈæksteəz/
]
[ US /ˈbækˌstɛɹz/ ]
[ US /ˈbækˌstɛɹz/ ]
NOUN
- a second staircase at the rear of a building
ADJECTIVE
-
secret and sly or sordid
furtive behavior
his low backstairs cunning
backstairs gossip
backstairs intimacies
How To Use backstairs In A Sentence
- Eager hints would become rhapsodic proclamations; backstairs whispers would be babbled aloud in the corridors of the complex.
- And say, ‘Let's get a hustle on back down backstairs, this wind is about to blow us both overboard!’
- Places (we often called them that instead of farms) that I knew about all had either stairs or backstairs to the servants quarters, so I was quite surprised to see that at Beamish ladders had been the order of the day.
- The metope between wine ark and backstairs hangs on two transition that achieve watercolour cartoon formerly, whole dining room became immediately active.
- Was there a motive at work under this strange reluctance of his which had a sort of backstairs influence, not admitted to himself?
- We crept up the backstairs in our nightclothes, trailed by the sleepy dogs. Exit the Actress
- He ran down the backstairs to the pool and into the diner so that none of them will know he had done it.
- The real strength of his play lies in its backstairs portrait of the horrors of English hotel life.
- Just prior to the formal tour I led an unofficial tour of random colleagues from assorted units on a wild goose chase round the backstairs.
- The images of abuse of royal power and of backstairs corruption are the main issues that he must counter.