back road
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of back road
An Americanism dating back to 1780–90
Example Sentences
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I installed seat belts so I can put my 2-½-year-old daughter’s car seat in back for slow back road drives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025
In the end, on 11 December, I drove with a colleague along a back road to Nuseirat.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2024
They ditched the car miles from the festival, held on a farm in Bethel, N.Y., and continued down a back road on foot.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2023
When people used to ask where I lived, I would tell them, “Along the back road to Las Vegas.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2022
The only living souls to overhear us on this back road were our horses and perhaps the occasional hoot owl.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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