Definition of backstair Backstair

back•stair

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What does backstair mean?

WordNet

WordNet by Princeton University

Adjective

backstair, backstairer, backstairest

backstair - secret and sly or sordid; "backstairs gossip"; "his low backstairs cunning"- A.L.Guerard; "backstairs intimacies"; "furtive behavior"
  backstairs, furtive
  covert secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; "covert actions by the CIA"; "covert funding for the rebels"
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • backstair (a.)
    Private; indirect; secret; intriguing; -- as if finding access by the back stairs.

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  • backstair, adjective.

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