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Definition of back room
back room 
adjective
- away from public scrutiny. Usually in reference to business or political arrangements.
Citation from "5 Minute Delay Scuttles Chance at $40 Billion Air Force Deal", Wired, Noah Shachtman, Aug 7 2010 blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: quiet, secret.
Last edited on Aug 07 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 07 2010.
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Other terms relating to 'quiet, secret': | |
| Definitions include: "cutie." | |
| Definitions include: mom aka "mother". | |
| Definitions include: "on the down low", i.e. secret. | |
| Definitions include: secret. | |
| Definitions include: secretive. | |
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Other terms relating to 'back': | |
| Definitions include: large buttocks. | |
| Definitions include: wild or rough terrain adjacent to a developed area. | |
| Definitions include: done or performed incorrectly, strangely, opposite from the correct way, or clumsily; "backwards". | |
| Definitions include: exclamation useful when the conversation is going off tangent. | |
| Definitions include: and the same to you. | |
| Definitions include: the anus. | |
| Definitions include: the man who a cheating spouse sees on the side. | |
| Definitions include: horrendous diarrhea. | |
| Definitions include: the anus. | |
| Definitions include: Far away. | |
| Definitions include: at some time before the present. | |
| Definitions include: having resumed an activity that one had previously stopped performing. | |
| Definitions include: large buttocks. | |
| Definitions include: Slang for having a shit. | |
| Definitions include: doing better after an unfavorable event. | |
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Other terms relating to 'room': | |
| Definitions include: outdoors, during the day. | |
| Definitions include: outdoors. | |
| Definitions include: a room in which telemarketers make cold calls. | |
| Definitions include: a room where performers wait until their performance. | |
| Definitions include: A term used when observing something (an object, usually) that is completely objectionable or worthless. | |
| Definitions include: the men's restroom. | |
| Definitions include: women's restroom. | |
| Definitions include: discussion using foul language, or of a sexual or otherwise offensive nature. | |
| Definitions include: restroom. | |
| Definitions include: one's worse fear. | |
| Definitions include: Bathroom. | |
| Definitions include: a room with a toilet; "bathroom". | |
| Definitions include: flexibility. | |
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