ALLEY


Meaning of ALLEY in English

noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ dark , darkened

▪ deserted , empty ( esp. AmE )

▪ little , narrow

a maze of narrow ~s

▪ cobbled ( esp. BrE )

▪ back , side

▪ blind ( figurative )

Over-reliance on statistics has led us down a blind ~.

ALLEY + VERB

▪ lead onto sth , lead to sth

The ~ leads to the restaurant kitchen.

ALLEY + NOUN

▪ cat

PREPOSITION

▪ along an/the ~ , down an/the ~ , up an/the ~

I walked back along a side ~.

a bar down a little ~

▪ in an/the ~

They had cornered him in an ~.

▪ through an/the ~

She wandered through the back ~s.

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