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Decades ago, women suffered through horrifying back-alley abortions. Or, they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse. So when the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women's health, pushing bills to limit access to vital services, we had to ask: Why is the GOP trying to send women back... to the back alley?
Lisa Edelstein

Meaning of "back-alley" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BACK-ALLEY

back-alley  [ˈbækˌælɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BACK-ALLEY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Back-Alley is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BACK-ALLEY


alley
ˈælɪ
bally
ˈbælɪ
challis
ˈʃælɪ
dally
ˈdælɪ
dilly-dally
ˌdɪlɪˈdælɪ
galley
ˈɡælɪ
Halley
ˈhælɪ
kali
ˈkælɪ
pally
ˈpælɪ
rally
ˈrælɪ
reveille
rɪˈvælɪ
sallee
ˈsælɪ
sally
ˈsælɪ
scally
ˈskælɪ
shalli
ˈʃælɪ
tally
ˈtælɪ
trevally
trɪˈvælɪ
valley
ˈvælɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BACK-ALLEY

back yard
back-country
back-end
back-end load
back-end loading
back-heel
back-kitchen
back-of-the-envelope
back-office
back-pedal
back-pedalled
back-pedalling
back-row
back-seat driver
back-slapping
back-stabbing
back-to-back
back-to-office report
back-to-the-office report
back-up light

WORDS THAT END LIKE BACK-ALLEY

Alpine Valley
back alley
blind alley
bowling alley
Death Valley
dry valley
Great Rift Valley
hanging valley
intervalley
lilies of the valley
lily of the valley
rift valley
Seaton Valley
Silicon Valley
skittle alley
tomalley
trolley
U-shaped valley
up one´s alley
Yosemite Valley

Synonyms and antonyms of back-alley in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «back-alley» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BACK-ALLEY

Find out the translation of back-alley to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of back-alley from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «back-alley» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

黑市
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

de callejón
570 millions of speakers

English

back-alley
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वापस गली
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الخلفي زقاق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

назад - аллея
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

back- alley
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পিছনের সরুগলি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ruelle
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lorong belakang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Back- Gasse
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

裏通りの
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

뒷골목
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lurung-lurung
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

con hẻm trở lại
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மீண்டும் சந்து
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बॅक-एली
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

arka sokak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

back- alley
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

back- aleja
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

назад- алея
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

back- alee
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πίσω - δρομάκι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

back- stegie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tillbaka - gränd
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

back- alley
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of back-alley

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BACK-ALLEY»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BACK-ALLEY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about back-alley

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QUOTES WITH «BACK-ALLEY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word back-alley.
1
Lisa Edelstein
Decades ago, women suffered through horrifying back-alley abortions. Or, they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse. So when the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women's health, pushing bills to limit access to vital services, we had to ask: Why is the GOP trying to send women back... to the back alley?

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BACK-ALLEY»

Discover the use of back-alley in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to back-alley and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Back-alley Banking: Private Entrepreneurs in China
Back-Alley Banking includes lively biographical sketches of individual entrepreneurs; telling quotations from official documents, policy statements, and newspaper accounts; and interviews with a wide variety of women and men who give vivid ...
Kellee S. Tsai, 2004
2
Secrets of a Back Alley Id Man: Fake Id Construction ...
In Secrets of a Back-Alley ID Man, Sheldon Charrett (The Modern Identity Changer and Identity, Privacy, and Personal Freedom) will show you the most effective "new school" and "old-school" techniques for new IDs, as well as poor man's ...
Sheldon Charrett, Charrett Charrett, 2001
3
Back Alley Reporter
"Back Alley Reporter," McCardell's follow-up to his bestselling memoir "Chasing the Story God," is a charming collection of anecdotes, full of "un-put-downable" fun for anybody who enjoys a well-turned yarn.
Mike McCardell, 2009
4
Abortion Wars: A Half Century of Struggle, 1950-2000
The enduring myth of the back -alley butcher has profound contemporary relevance. The anecdotal, unsubstantiated taint attached to old-time practitioners has a way of bleeding across time to infect the public and professional standing of ...
Rickie Solinger, 1998
5
College 101: The Book Your College Does Not Want You to Read
A tongue-in-check, yet informative guide for the college-bound student. No student should be without a copy of this "George-Carlinesque" swipe at the college industry.
Guy Stevens, 2004
6
Back Alley John
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Back Alley John (b. John Carl David Wilson, Ottawa, Ontario, February 10, 1955; d.
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, McBrewster John, 2010
7
The Brothers Karamazov
But destiny will be accomplished, and the best man will hold his ground while the undeserving one will vanish into his back-alley for ever--his filthy back-alley, his beloved back-alley, where he is at home and where he will sink in filth and ...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1970
8
Survive!: My Fight for Life in the High Sierras
I respond, “Bring the truck down the back alley. But let's go up a couple of blocks so that we're out of sight first. Then we can enter the alley a couple of blocks north and cruise down the alley with the lights off.” After inching a block and a half ...
Peter DeLeo, 2005
9
Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor
... extra compensation for removing drunks and drug addicts who have celebrated that day and who have passed out in front of a store or in the back alley. Occasionally he helps proprietors find stolen goods, particularly if the value of the ...
Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, 2009
10
A new and accurate history and survey of London, ...
Back-alley, which is a pasiage upon sufferance into Ropemakers- alley; Ramjhead-court ; Sugarloaf-court ; Sevenstar- court ; Sugarloaf-alley ; Butler's- alley, where it is said there is a Romijh chapel 5 Cur-yard; Cock-alley; all which are very ...
John Entick, 1766

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BACK-ALLEY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term back-alley is used in the context of the following news items.
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Odyssey Nightclub set to relaunch for Vancouver Pride Week
Two entrances, including a legal back-alley entrance like the previous location, will help "to process people faster" by reducing any potential ... «Straight.com, Jul 15»
2
How 'Robert Bork's America' Gave Us Justice Kennedy's America
Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, ... «Daily Signal, Jul 15»
3
Back-Alley Abortions and the Russian Abortion Poster
Oh, and by the way–despite the legality and wide spread practice of abortion in Russia, the old “back-alley abortions” by unlicensed ... «Patheos, Jun 15»
4
Woman Dies From Back-Alley Butt Implants as Cops Search for …
A Maryland woman's back-alley butt implants killed her over the weekend and now police in New York are on the hunt for the quack doctor who ... «Newsmax, Jun 15»

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