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 back·stairs /-ˌstærz, ˌstɛrz/
 後面樓梯,廚房門(a.)詭密的,祕密的

 Back·stairs, Back stairs. n. Stairs in the back part of a house, as distinguished from the front stairs; a second staircase at the rear of a building; hence, a private or indirect way.
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 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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 backstairs
      adj : secret and sly or sordid; "backstairs gossip"; "his low
            backstairs cunning"- A.L.Guerard; "backstairs
            intimacies"; "furtive behavior" [syn: backstair, furtive]
      n : a second staircase at the rear of a building