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backrooms

UK/ˈbækˌɹuːms//ˈbækˌɹums/

backrooms is the plural 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.

Proper noun capitalized: Backrooms

the Backrooms

  1. (Internet) A fictional environment, originating from an online urban legend and creepypasta, consisting of a seemingly endless maze of empty hallways, often described as being inhabited by monsters, or having multiple levels or floors.
    • If you're not careful and you noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you'll end up in the Backrooms, where it's nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million...2019 May 12, 4chan, /x/, archived from the original on 12 Jan 2024
    • Threads are filled with talk of new levels that could sit above, below or beside the Backrooms, including pitch black tunnels and an abandoned hotel.2022 March 29, Andrew Lloyd, “The Backrooms: How a Creepy Office Photo Became an Internet Bogeyman”, in VICE, archived from the original on 07 May 2023

Origin of backrooms

From backrooms. Coined by an anonymous poster on the 4chan /x/ board on May 12th, 2019 (see quotation below).

Words formed from backrooms

Questions about backrooms

What does backrooms mean?
Backrooms means a fictional environment, originating from an online urban legend and creepypasta, consisting of a seemingly endless maze of empty hallways, often described as being inhabited by monsters, or having multiple levels or floors.
What is backrooms the plural of?
Backrooms is the plural of backroom.
What part of speech is backrooms?
Backrooms is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce backrooms?
Backrooms is pronounced /ˈbækˌɹuːms/ (UK).

Words near backrooms in the dictionary

  1. backronymy
  2. backroom
  3. backroom boy
  4. backroom boys
  5. backroom staff
  6. backrooms
  7. Backroomsy
  8. backrope
  9. backropes
  10. backround
  11. backrow

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Adapted from Wiktionary: backrooms (page history and authors); Backrooms (page history and authors); backroom (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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