back lot

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noun Movies.

an outdoor area, usually adjoining a studio, used for the shooting of exterior scenes.

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Origin of back lot

An Americanism dating back to 1795–1805

Words nearby back lot

backlist, backlit, backlite, back-load, backlog, back lot, back marker, back matter, back molding, backmost, back-mutate

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How to use back lot in a sentence

"That's Pete Moser, he's out in the back lot plowin'," a half dozen voices responded.
The Four Pools Mystery|Jean Webster
Bending low he hurled himself at them as he had done when playing football on a back lot.
The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon|Richard Connell
They were regular humbugs; and so the mob took them, and tarred and feathered them in the back lot.
Round the Block|John Bell Bouton
If you have visions of seeing Phil chased over the back lot by any stepmother, you have another guess coming.
Otherwise Phyllis|Meredith Nicholson

"Bart, I've some wheat to be threshed in the barn on the back lot," said the Senator as I was leaving them.
The Light in the Clearing|Irving Bacheller

British Dictionary definitions for back lot

backlot

/ (ˈbækˌlɒt) /

noun

an area outside a film or television studio used for outdoor filming

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