backstairs

Meanings

Noun

• a second staircase at the rear of a building
• A staircase at the rear of a building or one normally only used by servants and tradesmen.
• An indirect or furtive means of access or intercourse.

Adjective Satellite

• secret and sly or sordid; ; - A.L.Guerard
  • "backstairs gossip"
  • "his low backstairs cunning"
  • "backstairs intimacies"

Adj

• Secret or furtive.
• Scandalous.

Synonyms

backstair, furtive