BACK ROOM Definition & Meaning

back room

or ��۴Ǵǳ�

noun

a room located in the rear, especially one used only by certain people.
a place where powerful or influential persons, especially politicians, meet to plan secretly or from which they exercise control in an indirect manner:
The candidate for mayor was chosen in the precincts' back rooms.

back room

noun

1. a place where research or planning is done, esp secret research in wartime
2. ( as modifier )
  back-room boys

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of back room¹

First recorded in 1585–95

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Example Sentences

About a dozen members of the party have piled into the back room of the pub while Fox News blares on surrounding TV screens.

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But the man serenading her new USC teammates and coaches over dinner in the back room of their swanky Paris restaurant had just brought out an extra microphone.

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We also see her and the other strippers on a lunch break, eating from Tupperware boxes in a back room.

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He sometimes performs in back rooms of pubs, where people don't always know that comedy is about to take place around them.

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Early on a recent Monday morning, the nursery was quiet other than an occasional phone call answered by his brother, David, in a back room.

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