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- adjective Associated with
neighborhoods onback streets , often in older neighborhoods, with poorer residents. - noun Alternative spelling of
back street .
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Examples
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For British women pregnant with a daughter, the cost, pain and terror of a late term backstreet abortion in India await
Home | Mail Online 2010
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According to the survey, abortion was seen by government as a means of curtailing "backstreet" illegal operations.
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Africa annually, many the result of "backstreet" operations.
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One's best bet may be a "backstreet" perm somewhere in the suburbs, where it's that, or a blue rinse.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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One's best bet may be a "backstreet" perm somewhere in the suburbs, where it's that, or a blue rinse.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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While Parrish becomes involved with Lucy, Ellen finds herself attracted to Judd's power and his money, and soon takes up with him ... while questioning Parrish about his own "backstreet" affair with the common Lucy.
DVD Talk 2009
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Claire made an impact because she hated the conspiracy of silence: the sort of silence that had allowed her to endure an abusive childhood; the silence that meant, as a 17-year-old nursing cadet, she was tasked with laying out the body of a girl her own age who had died of septicaemia caused by a botched backstreet abortion.
Claire Rayner: A sane voice that helped people make sense of the knotty complications of their sexual lives Jay Rayner 2010
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Age-old traditions are mixed with digital sci-fi themes; hints of religious ritual merge with almost fetishist fantasies; hyperrealist techniques reinforce idealised stereotypes; and backstreet culture is given the glamour treatment.
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"Our teachers do have fewer qualifications than government teachers," admits Ghouse Mohammed Khan, principal of Indian Stars Grammar School in another Hyderabadi backstreet.
Capitalism without Capital, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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To be honest there will be more women looking for backstreet abortionist, were they could bleed out or sterile.
Wonk Room » Is Denying Women Abortions The Price Of Bipartisanship? 2009
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