backstreet adjective2 •Associated with neighborhoods on back streets, often in older neighborhoods, with poorer residents.She's been living in her uptown world / I bet she's never had a backstreet guy / I bet her momma never told her why — 1983 •(figurative) Done in poor and unsanitary conditions, secretly and illegally; back-alley.The results of self-induced and backstreet abortions come to our hospitals for the damage to be put right. — 1965 formsbackstreets · more backstreet · most backstreet