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 Translation for 'back street' from English to Norwegian
NOUN   a back street | back streets
SYNO alley | alleyway | back street
traf.
bakgate {m/f}
back street
Partial Matches
traf.
gate {m/f}
street
2
gatebilde {n}street scene
mus.
gatemusiker {m}
street musician
traf.
sidegate {m/f}
side street
kjøretøy
feiebil {m}
street sweeper
traf.
gaterengjøring {m/f}
street cleaning
gatedør {m/f}street door
jur.
selvjustis {m}
street justice
gateprostitusjon {m}street prostitution
unverified
traf.
gategods {n}
street goods
traf.
gatehjørne {n}
street corner
traf.transp.
hovedgate {m/f}
main street
traf.
gågate {m/f}
pedestrian street
traf.
gatebelysning {m/f}
street lighting
jobberkjøretøy
gatefeier {m}
street sweeper
kunst
gatekunst {m}
street art
kunst
gatekunstner {m}
street artist
gateprostituert {m/f}street prostitute
traf.transp.
gatelys {n}
street light
bygg.traf.
gateskap {n}
street cabinet
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Usage Examples English
  • Banking was of the small, back-street variety, run by the urban lower-middle class of petty shopkeepers.
  • By the time they released the rock-oriented albums "Beauty on a Back Street" in 1977 and "Along the Red Ledge" in 1978, disco music was trendy and taking most of the spots in popular music.
  • "Back Street Pickup" peaked in the top 30 in both Australia and New Zealand.
  • Alexander Gordon envisaged a thriving industrial village and built a small linen factory in Back Street (now North Street) which produced fine linen table-cloths and wincey using flax from Auchintoul Moss.
  • By the close of the 19th century shipping and associated industries had taken over the area and spread to fill the parkland beside the Clyde and the area was densely populated and characterised by back-street workshops and closely packed tenements.

  • "Mews" has since been applied to any stable buildings in any space, lane, alley or back street onto which these buildings open, and to any new residential buildings of similar character throughout the English-speaking world that have motor vehicles taking the place of horses and carriages.
  • The band released "Back Street Luv" which reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart to become the band's most successful single to date.
  • The book uses colloquial speech, and its portrayal of petty thieving, sexual encounters, births, deaths and back-street abortion provided a view of life that was previously unrecognised by many people.
  • The painting depicts an urban "back street" scene of slaves in Washington, DC, although it became popularly known from that year as "Old Kentucky Home" (based on the song "My Old Kentucky Home" by Stephen Foster) and was referred to as showing plantation life.
  • He was born in Kirkby Overblow (as mentioned in "Hare Sitting Up") and brought up in a back street in a Midlands town ("Appleby's Other Story").

  • He produced the debut album "Back Street Symphony" by London rockers Thunder and their follow up "Laughing on Judgement Day".
  • Kossoff died on a flight from Los Angeles to New York City on 19 March 1976 from a pulmonary embolism after a blood clot in his leg moved to his lung, while touring America with Back Street Crawler.
  • In 1969 it joined with the Chapel Street Methodist Church, which was in existence in 1810 in what was originally Back Street.
  • Amis initially arranged for her to have a back-street abortion, but changed his mind, fearing for her safety.
  • His wife died in Tenterden Kent in 1936; Symons died probably in the same house (Island Cottage, Back Street, Kingsgate) in 1945.

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