[ UK /bˈækste‍əz/ ]
[ US /ˈbækˌstɛɹz/ ]
NOUN
  1. a second staircase at the rear of a building
ADJECTIVE
  1. secret and sly or sordid
    furtive behavior
    his low backstairs cunning
    backstairs gossip
    backstairs intimacies

How To Use backstairs In A Sentence

  • The real reason is that she is ashamed of New Labour's backstairs manoeuvres to starve the nursery nurses back to work.
  • Had this questionnaire been produced two years ago, before Museum Services were accused (no doubt unjustly) of backstairs negotiations, the questions would have been highly appropriate.
  • The camp has felt able to display a high degree of serenity in recent days, affecting a distance from the apparent skullduggery and backstairs dealings, in the sincere belief that things are moving the Chancellor's way.
  • He slipped into the alley and up the backstairs.
  • However, Article 51 seals the churches' special status and lends them yet more opportunity for backstairs dealing, without being subject to the same democratic checks and balances as the rest of civil society.
  • He said: ‘I sense that there may be the stench of a backstairs stitch-up.’
  • ‘And he wonder's why I worry,’ she mumbled a she rushed down the backstairs hoping to surprise the fighting party.
  • his low backstairs cunning
  • Up the backstairs in bare feet so that no one would hear and interrupt them.
  • backstairs intimacies
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