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
Harkutt coughed ostentatiously, put the paper back in his pocket, set one or two boxes straight on the counter, locked the drawer, and disappeared into the back passage.
From A First Family of Tasajara by Bret Harte
The house, nevertheless, was a respectable one, and, like all the others, fronted on another street—this dark Toison d'Or being merely a back passage used principally by the tradespeople for the delivery of supplies.
From Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces by Thomas W. Hanshew
It followed Frank along the back passage leading straight into the hall: it was one of those huge stone halls such as people in Yorkshire like.
From Old Kensington by Miss Thackeray
THE water was all slippy- sloppy in the larder and in the back passage.
From A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories by Beatrix Potter
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