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back room

or ۴Ǵdz

noun

  1. a room located in the rear, especially one used only by certain people.
  2. a place where powerful or influential persons, especially politicians, meet to plan secretly or from which they exercise control in an indirect manner:

    The candidate for mayor was chosen in the precincts' back rooms.



back room

noun

    1. a place where research or planning is done, esp secret research in wartime
    2. ( as modifier )

      back-room boys

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of back room1

First recorded in 1585–95
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After East L.A. deputies arrived at the crime scene, Rivera told them she and Gonzalez had been in a back room of his family’s home when they heard someone shouting for his older brother, Vidal.

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About a dozen members of the party have piled into the back room of the pub while Fox News blares on surrounding TV screens.

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But the man serenading her new USC teammates and coaches over dinner in the back room of their swanky Paris restaurant had just brought out an extra microphone.

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We also see her and the other strippers on a lunch break, eating from Tupperware boxes in a back room.

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He sometimes performs in back rooms of pubs, where people don't always know that comedy is about to take place around them.

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