Back·stairs, Back·stair , a. Private; indirect; secret; conducted with secrecy; intriguing; -- as if finding access by the back stairs; as, backstairs gossip.
Syn: -- clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, on the quiet(predicate), secret, subterranean, surreptitious, undercover, underground.
A backstairs influence. --Burke.
Female caprice and backstair influence. --Trevelyan.
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backstair
adj : secret and sly or sordid; "backstairs gossip"; "his low
backstairs cunning"- A.L.Guerard; "backstairs
intimacies"; "furtive behavior" [syn: backstairs, furtive]