From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishalleywayal‧ley‧way /ˈæliweɪ/ noun [countable] ROAD/PATHan alley
Examples from the Corpus
alleyway• She walked briskly through the teeming streets and alleyways which lay behind the main thoroughfares of Bridgetown.• A beggar lad showed us the house in a dank, narrow alleyway where Mistress Hopkins lived.• Beyond them other streets with narrow rear alleyways and outside lavatories stretched all the way to the main road.• It was identical to the one thrust into my hand in the alleyway.• A motor car was parked in the alleyway about three metres from the bakery door and alongside the Alliance building end wall. 