Definitions for Alley

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Alley al·ley

Spelling: [al-ee]

IPA: /ˈæl i/

Alley is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in Alley (aelly).

Definitions for Alley

noun

1. a passage, as through a continuous row of houses, permitting access from the street to backyards, garages, etc.
2. a narrow back street.
3. a walk, as in a garden, enclosed with hedges or shrubbery.
4. Bowling. a long, narrow, wooden lane or floor along which the ball is rolled. (often plural) a building for bowling. bowling green.
5. Tennis. the space on each side of a tennis court between the doubles sideline and the service or singles sideline.
6. Rare. an aisle.
7. a choice, large playing marble.

Idioms

1. up / down one's alley, Informal. in keeping with or satisfying one's abilities, interests, or tastes:

Origin of Alley

1350-1400; Middle English al(e)y Middle French alee walk, passage, derivative of feminine of ale, past participle of aler to walk (French aller), probably Vulgar Latin *allārī, regularized fr

Examples for Alley

Trell had a bus ticket to Iowa and the promise of a new life in his pocket when he was fatally shot in a Chicago alley in 2012.

Up the alley went the car, police keeping the crowd from following.

They have moved from the alley; the surroundings were not such as they liked.

Through the trees the mouth of the alley could be seen, opening out on a moonlit glade.

The picture you took of the boy lying in the alley also seemed to strike a chord.

Then but a few moments to reach Gerty's alley, and Gerty's window.

The alley cat and her kittens would have mugged him already.

He walked on ahead of them, turned down an alley, and disappeared.

It had rained while we were inside and the air in the alley smelled almost fresh.

He said his cousin had been found dead in an alley and he had to rush home.