Adjective : back-alley morals; back-alley political schemes.    From Dictionary.com. 

But she writes with a visceral, back-alley fluency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adam Hanft: Who Needs the Olympics? Consolation Reading for Chicago Lovers] Reference

If they get caught, there are no back-alley murders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scamming Uncle Sam] Reference

We will not return to the back-alley, wire-hanger abortions.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Another state's giant step backward for women] Reference

Palin is a gateway drug to a back-alley brawl Obama can't win.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Cusack: The Final Distraction: McCain/Palin Worse Than Bush] Reference

We will not return to the back-alley, wire-hanger abortions. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Another state's giant step backward for women] Reference

Or, desperate, forced to seek potentially unsafe back-alley abortions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juno and the Right to Abortion] Reference

Many women died in back-alley abortions: Do not let her turn back the clock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is John McCain a sexist by choosing Sarah Palin?] Reference

Karen O'Connor doesn't remember the fabled coat hangers or the back-alley abortions.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Roe's Shadow] Reference

A woman who is forced to seek a back-alley abortion is likely to die in the hands of a butcher.    From Wordnik.com.  [feminist blogs in english » 2007 » January] Reference

KENNEDY: Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2006] Reference

I remember a time when abortion was illegal, and I know women who went to back-alley abortionists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caryl Rivers: Backsliding on Roe] Reference

You'll only make fresh scrapes and then let some back-alley crone put the Light knows what on them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eye of the World]

That no woman would ever again be forced to risk her life or her fertility with a back-alley abortion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks At The Roe v. Wade 25th Anniversary Luncheon] Reference

I don't want women to resort to back-alley abortions, nor be forced to bear the children of their rapists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: Not Just An Issue Of Black And White] Reference

That is, if you want to look at it, it's just a back-alley approach to taking away a woman's right to choose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry] Reference

Most everyone knew of someone who had died from a back-alley abortion, or a child who had been orphaned by one.    From Wordnik.com.  [On 'Friday Night Lights,' a brave and honest abortion story] Reference

Aren't they just horrible? the network seems to ask, with the zeal of the guy who runs the back-alley dogfight.    From Wordnik.com.  [As new Housewives divide and conquer D.C., we just don't get 'Real' anymore] Reference

The poor who don't want to be pregnant have few other options -- just the usual gamut of back-alley procedures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vicky Shorr: The Catholic Church Vs. The Women of Brazil] Reference

Peddling the iconic Michigan Avenue Tribune Tower, so he can put the Trib offices in some back-alley warehouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [SAM ZELL'S HEROIC DECONSTRUCTION OF ICONIC NEWSPAPERS] Reference

You know, they -- he came out firing and Robert Bork's America, back-alley abortions, segregated lunch counters.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 19, 2005] Reference

Public funds aren't to help out society's weak and lame, they are for back-alley quid pro quo crony transactions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rudy Fund-Raising Email Touts Strength, Optimism And His Own Ties To Reagan—2008, Anyone?] Reference

In the past, franchisers had relied largely on "hearsay and back-alley information" in setting pay levels, he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sizing Up Salaries Inside Franchisers] Reference

In each case the victim was a less-than-savory individual, ranging from back-alley hoodlums to corrupt petty nobles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Curse of the Shadowmage]

Cameron makes good and subtle use of his comparative youthfulness and he enjoys taunting Brown with back-alley jibes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speaking of leaders] Reference

Either that, or I imagined some shady hairdresser performing the cut in the dead of night, like a back-alley abortion.    From Wordnik.com.  [idiot-milk Diary Entry] Reference

Then there's the back-alley rescue of a dog who was kidnapped by a vengeful ex-boyfriend and taken to a vet to be put down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five new books about dogs] Reference

No, she did not have one through a botched abortion or a back-alley abortion, but she was the survivor of a late-term abortion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The survivors of abortion] Reference

They couldn't even be bothered to pay the temple for a legitimate debt mark, but only that botched tattoo from a back-alley vendor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spirit Gate] Reference

Dems have a fantasy that the Repubs are going to change their back-alley tactics if they can just get them to vote for a resolution?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virtually All Republican Senators Vote Against Boxer Reso Condemning Attacks On Military Figures] Reference

As a college student at Stanford, I watched the passing of the plate to collect money so a young woman could go to Tijuana for a back-alley abortion.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 12, 2005] Reference

Born long after the last back-alley abortion and raised under the pro-choice Clinton administration, the post-Roe set has learned to take legal abortion for granted.    From Wordnik.com.  [GENERATION AMBIVALENT] Reference

The evils of slum dwellings, whether in the shape of crowded and congested tenement-house districts or of the back-alley type, should never be permitted to grow up in Washington.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference