backstage
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3.0
- adverb
- /ˈbækˌsteɪdʒ/
:
entre bastidores
- The actors gathered backstage to rehearse their lines before the show started.
- go backstage
Here we are backstage at the stable centre.
- Here we are backstage at the stable centre.
- I remember being backstage and I just seen Zay.
- The next James Bond is sitting backstage right now, Dornan.
- How was she reacting backstage while I was talking to him?
- So he brought me on stage and brought her backstage and, you know, Puerto Rican connection.
Examples
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OK, we should get off the stage because we got to go backstage and get ready.
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Jamie and I first met him backstage at some Discovery event.
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And then I would work backstage during the shows.
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OK, so this is backstage, and then here is where we perform.
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And I will get you backstage after the show.
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I can just imagine Guy backstage right now, Just waiting to go on.
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I was your age, and my pop took me backstage after a show.
Fiction book (1993) -
We'll be hanging with them, you know, backstage in the club, right?
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At least it's dark and relatively cool backstage because the ceilings are high.
Fiction book (1996) -
Sage waited in a room backstage until the producer came to fetch her.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
10
4.1
In a place at the side or behind the stage where the audience cannot see
How Visible
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Backstage is made of back and stage, and it literally means 'behind' the stage. So used as an adverb it means going or happening in the area out of view of the audience.