backstreet Syllabification: (back·street)Pronunciation: /ˈbakˌstrēt/Translate backstreet | into French | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of backstreet noun a minor street remote from a main road:the fetid backstreets of the shanty town [as modifier]:a backstreet garage adjective [attributive] operating or performed secretly, and typically illegally:a loophole that allowed backstreet chemists to make methamphetaminebackstreet in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of backstreet in the British & World English dictionary