An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
BACKSTAIR
backstair, backstairs, furtive
(adjective) secret and sly or sordid; “backstairs gossip”; “his low backstairs cunning”- A.L.Guerard; “backstairs intimacies”; “furtive behavior”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
backstair (not comparable)
clandestine, secret or furtive
Synonyms
• backstairs
Noun
backstair (plural backstairs)
The backstairs (stairs at the rear of a building).
Source: Wiktionary
Back"stairs`, Back"stair`, a.
Definition: Private; indirect; secret; intriguing; as if finding access by the back stairs. A backstairs influence. Burke. Female caprice and backstairs influence. Trevelyan.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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