back door

Meaning

Noun

1. A subsidiary entrance to a building or house at its rear, normally away from the street.
2. A means of access, often secret and unprotected, to something.
3. A secret means of access to a program or system.
4. A rear side door of a car, or at the back of a van.
5. (slang) The anus; (by extension) anal sex.
6. (informal) The rear side of the hole, furthest from the golfer.

Adj

1. (US, not-comparable) The path of a pitch which starts outside and then slides over the plate.
2. (not-comparable) Achieved through indirect means.
3. (not-comparable) Requiring consecutive cards on the turn and river to be achieved.

Verb

1. To attempt to accomplish by indirect means, especially when direct means are proscribed.
2. To enter a tube by accelerating from behind; to surf into an already formed hollow wave, in contrast to the normal method of slowing to allow a surfable wave to form.
3. To add a backdoor (a secret means of access) to a program or system.

Synonyms

backdoor

back entrance

exit

in secret

postern

privily

secretly

sneakingly

rear entrance

kitchen door

back-channel

on the Q.T.

back channel

on the QT

back-door

backstage

Translations

Hintertür

achterdeur

arka kapı

porte de derrière

puerta trasera

porte dérobée

Küchentür

Hintereingang

porta falsa

πίσω πόρτα

porte

🚪

κερκόπορτα

hinteres Tor

porte de service

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