backway

Etymology

From back + way.

backway means A back alley. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 91 out of 100.

noun

A back alley.“Gliding along the silent streets, and holding his course where they were darkest and most gloomy, the man who had left the widow's house crossed London Bridge, and arriving in the City, plunged into the backways, lanes, and courts […]”