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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 ~
Oxford Collocations Dictionary