| n. | 1. | Stairs in the back part of a house, as distinguished from the |
| a. | 1. | Private; indirect; secret; conducted with secrecy; intriguing; - as if finding access by the back stairs; |
| Noun | 1. | backstairs - a second staircase at the rear of a building |
| Adj. | 1. | backstairs - secret and sly or sordid; "backstairs gossip"; "his low backstairs cunning"- A.L.Guerard; "backstairs intimacies"; "furtive behavior" |