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back passage

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noun

  1. the rectum

  2. an interior passageway towards the back of a building

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

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 Joly, H. Bencraft

And now they had arrived at the rear of the house, and stood in shadow opposite a back passage window.

From Nearly Lost but Dearly Won by Wilson, Theodore P.

There is no back passage by which any one could have descended while the party proceeded up stairs.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Willis, Nathaniel Parker

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 Hanshew, Thomas W.

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