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back⋅stairs

  [bak-stairz]
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–adjective
1. associated or originating with household servants.
2. secret, underhanded, or scandalous: backstairs gossip.
Also, backstair.

Origin:
1635–45; adj. use of back stairs
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back·stairs   (bāk'stârz')   
adj.  Furtively carried on; clandestine: backstairs gossip.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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