Tra từ alley - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

alley [alley alleys] BrE [ˈæli] NAmE [ˈæli] noun
1. (also al·ley·way BrE [ˈæliweɪ] ; NAmE [ˈæliweɪ] )a narrow passage behind or between buildings
•a narrow/dark alley
•The car was hidden down a narrow alley in the downtown area.
•He ran down one of the dark alleys at the back of the shops.

see also ↑blind alley, ↑bowling alley
2. (NAmE) (BrE tram·lines) (informal)the pair of parallel lines on a ↑tennis or ↑badminton ↑court that mark the extra area that is used when four people are playing
Idiom: ↑up your alley
See also: ↑tramlines

Word Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French alee ‘walking or passage’, from aler ‘go’, from Latin ambulare ‘to walk’.

Example Bank:
•I walked back along a side alley.
•Over-reliance on statistics has led us down a blind alley.
•She wandered through the back alleys.
•The alley leads to the restaurant kitchen.
•They had cornered him in an alley.
•a bar down a little alley
•a maze of narrow alleys
•An alley ran along the side of the house.
•He wandered back though the cobbled alleys.
•It is a medieval city of courtyards and twisting alleys.
•She was standing in a doorway halfway down the alley.
•The book describes the conditions of the urban poor in the sordid alleys of Victorian cities.
•The boy disappeared into a side alley.
•The city was a vast maze of narrow alleys.
•We walked up what turned out to be a blind alley.