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back passage

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noun

  1. the rectum

  2. an interior passageway towards the back of a building

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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

After nightfall he opened the gate and led us in by a back passage to my aunt's apartments where she and my uncle were waiting for me.

From Court Life in China by Headland, Isaac Taylor

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.

From this back passage or court a ladder, with rungs about two feet apart, leads into the Sultan's house, and a step-ladder into the women's house.

From The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

Suddenly, in a back passage, leading from her office to the housekeeper's room, she came upon a boy of fourteen, Forest's hall-boy, really a drudge-of-all-work, on whom essential things depended.

From Elizabeth's Campaign by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.