alley
noun
ADJ. dark | little, narrow a maze of narrow alleys| stinking I don't want to be left for dead in some stinking alley.| cobbled | back, side
ALLEY + VERB lead onto sth, lead to sth The alley leads to the village square.
ALLEY + NOUN cat
PREP. along an/the ~ I walked back along a side alley.| down an/the ~ a bookshop down a little alley| in an/the ~ They had cornered him in an alley.| through an/the ~ She wandered through the back alleys.| up an/the ~