Definition of Backrooms

1. Noun. (plural of backroom) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Backrooms

1. backroom [n] - See also: backroom

Lexicographical Neighbors of Backrooms

backreference
backreferences
backrest
backrests
backroad
backroads
backroll
backrolled
backrolling
backrolls
backronym
backronyms
backroom
backroom boy
backroom staff
backrooms
backrower
backrowers
backrub
backrubs
backrush
backrushes
backs
backs up
backsaw
backsaws
backscatter
backscattered
backscattered electron
backscattered electron imaging

Literary usage of Backrooms

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets by William Howitt (1847)
"While she resided in it, she had a set of backrooms, the noise of Upper Pembroke-street having been too much for her. The College grounds, of great extent, ..."

2. Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionary by James Curtis Hepburn (1873)
"The ceremony of scattering parched beans about the backrooms of a house to drive out evil spirits, on the last evening of the old year. MAME. ..."

3. The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler, David Josiah Brewer (1900)
"... they and their works are condemned to the limbo of the second-hand dealer's backrooms,— a limbo from which those who do not fear learned dust may rescue ..."

4. American Military Biography; Containing the Lives, Characters, and Anecdotes by Amos Blanchard (1825)
"Since this period many political schemes have originated, in the "backrooms" of printing-offices, but iti general of a very different character. ..."

5. The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation by Upton Sinclair (1918)
"... to sneer at the Socialists for having their meetings in the backrooms of saloons, and precisely as they still denounce us as free-lovers and atheists. ..."

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