back room

or backroom

noun

1. a room located in the rear, especially one used only by certain people.
2. 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. 1. a place where research or planning is done, esp secret research in wartime
   2. ( as modifier )

      back-room boys

Word History and Origins

Origin of back room¹

First recorded in 1585–95

Example Sentences

The corridor between the front and back rooms has been transformed into a Tokyo-style alley jammed with sham bars, eateries and vending and entertainment machines.

From Washington Post

Daylight was retreating in Fort Smith, and Schluterman was in the back room with a coworker when he heard the shopkeeper’s bell.

From The Daily Beast

I had just begun to walk around the counter to open the register myself when he entered from a back room.

From The Daily Beast

Most of the insurrectionists were lined up and machine gunned, though one group of right-wing officers managed to retreat to a back room and ceremonially shoot themselves while seated around a table.

From Time

I don’t think there’s one sort of smoking gun or people in the back room saying, “All right, let’s not get these things rolled out, because it goes against our interests.”

From Freakonomics

It was a typical day: Amber lined up her digital music with the deejay, then primped in a red-curtained back room.

From The Daily Beast

They treat the dogs like the lefthanded stepchild and put them in a the back room and left them there.

From The Daily Beast

He enters a back room, sits at a round café table and sips from a bottle of mineral water.

From The Daily Beast

When Jasaroska put up a fight, he offered to move them into a back room.

From The Daily Beast

We were ushered into the back room to view the few they carried.

From The Daily Beast

The door to the back room opened, letting through a blend of talk and small mechanical noises.

From Project Gutenberg

Quite a number of sandeaters, as time passed, seemed to drift in and out of the back room.

From Project Gutenberg

While I was watching over my shoulder, three or four sandeaters coming out of the back room shoved me aside to get at him.

From Project Gutenberg

They sniffed once at the bar, but followed their stubbled chins into the back room at max acc.

From Project Gutenberg

At that point, Jorgensen sailed through the curtained doorway between the bar and back room.

From Project Gutenberg