backstairs

backstairs has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 10.

Definitions

• Stairs in the back part of a house, as distinguished from the front stairs; hence, a private or indirect way.
• a.. Alt. of Backstair
• n.. a second staircase at the rear of a building
• a.. secret and sly or sordid; "backstairs gossip"; "his low backstairs cunning"- A.L.Guerard; "backstairs intimacies"; "furtive behavior"