backroom
- noun
- /ˈbækˌrum/
- After the store closed for the day, the employees gathered in the backroom to discuss their plans for the next week's inventory.
- store's backroom
- backroom of bars
And they take me to the backroom, which I'm very familiar with.
- And they take me to the backroom, which I'm very familiar with.
- Based in the backroom of a little known bookstore, which is good.
- And then we're talking and and I said, you know, we escaped through the backroom through a window.
- That's like, that's like EMT workers or doctors who are hiding in the backroom and don't want to help patients.
- We like created this whole new space in the backroom.
- And one day, the rest of my siblings was huddled in the backroom and I went down to see what was going on this time.
- And it could be a backroom with a little drywall and a poster, black light and A and a laptop.
- And then as soon as you get into the arena, you're in the backroom and you can smell the tight oil and like the oil you warm up with.
- You'll sit around the stage and there's normally a backroom where other meetings happen, you know, Thursday evening meetings, things like that.
- So I was like okay, bet and I seen they had muffins in the backroom behind the stage and I was hungry again.
- So they go into the backroom and there's, there's a woman or what he thinks is a woman lying on the floor.
- After the conversation, we brought the people in the backroom to see Stefan, who was controlling the the the the Philip K Dick robot.
- I kind of staggered to the backroom and truly thought about lying down on the floor because I was so exhausted.
Examples
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And it was like this little dirty backroom of a coffee shop.
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The Green Party of Pennsylvania will be holding a statewide meeting in Webster's backroom from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, November 18.
Blog text (12) -
And they take me to the backroom, which I'm very familiar with.
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Based in the backroom of a little known bookstore, which is good.
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He spent the night in the backroom.
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He went into the backroom.
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The safe's in the backroom.
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I kind of staggered to the backroom and truly thought about lying down on the floor because I was so exhausted.
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One birthday party will take place at home, two in the cherry-paneled backrooms of the only two restaurants in town.
Fiction book (2000) -
Camera tracks to the backroom, which we see is filled with racks of clothes, boxed television sets, new toaster ovens, and stereos.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
A private room used by a person for work or rest
A room at the back of a shop or office used for private meetings with a few people
A room where people keep extra things not used every day
A room where you keep things you do not use often
A room where someone makes things by hand or paints
A room in a shop where staff keep extra goods before they go on sale
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Morphology
Etymology
Backroom comes from the two words back ('the rear') and room ('space'). So a backroom is literally a room at the back of a building, often used for storage or private work.