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back room

back room is the alternative spelling of backroom.

Meaning of backroom

Noun

backroom (plural backrooms)

  1. (attributive, figuratively, often) Especially, one that is only accessible to a privileged few and can be used as an inconspicuous meeting place, where secrecy, anonymity, and even crooked dealings may occur.
    • Near-synonym: smoke-filled room (meeting place of crooked insiders)
    Synonyms:
    smoke-filled room[insider]]s>
  2. A storeroom in the rear of the premises.
    • We had thought that they were out of the old model, but somebody checked in the backroom and found a case of them.

Forms of back room

pluralback rooms

Questions about back room

What is back room the alternative spelling of?
Back room is the alternative spelling of backroom.

Words near back room in the dictionary

  1. back projections
  2. back rank
  3. back ranks
  4. back road
  5. back roads
  6. back room
  7. back rooms
  8. back row
  9. back rows
  10. back rub
  11. back run

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