back passage
Britishnoun
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the rectum
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an interior passageway towards the back of a building
Example Sentences
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Most of Nixon's domestic efforts in Congress have involved beating back passage of bills the Administration regarded as too expensive.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It was a back passage, and few pedestrians used the path; in fact, there were none on it this afternoon, so the children had it all to themselves.
From Five Little Peppers and their Friends by Margaret Sidney
Not having the least fear of contagion, she entered a back passage of the intricate house, which reminded her of the houses she used to build with cards as a child.
From The Motor Maids in Fair Japan by Katherine Stokes
It may be remembered, that it was by a door leading into the bedroom from a back passage, that Emily had secretly entered a few hours preceding.
From The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe
Then appearing, in person, outside the window of the covered back passage, she made thousand of appeals to Chang Te-hui to look after her son and take good care of him.
From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly
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