back door

See also: backdoor

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back door (plural back doors)

  1. A subsidiary entrance to a building or house at its rear, normally away from the street.
    • 2023 January 11, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: castles and cathedrals”, in RAIL, number 974, page 57:
      "Charles II, who was crowned here a little while before, occupied an old house (which is still standing) in New Street [Worcester], from which he escaped by the back door, as the enemy rushed in at the front."
  2. A means of access, often secret and unprotected, to something.
    • 2021 November 29, Alan Shearer, “Why Newcastle have to win their next two games to give them hope of staying in the Premier League - Alan Shearer analysis”, in BBC Sport‎:
      Scoring three goals at home should guarantee you three points, but when you go on the attack a little bit more, you leave the back door open. That's not always a good idea with this team.
  3. (computer security) A secret means of access to a program or system.
  4. (automotive) A rear side door of a car, or at the back of a van.
  5. (slang) The anus, generally used in reference to anal sex.
  6. (golf, informal) The rear side of the hole, furthest from the golfer.
    • 2010, Bob Glanville, Golf: The Game of Lessening Failures (page 14)
      Sometimes the ball will curve around and enter from the back-door.

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back door (not comparable)

  1. (US, baseball) The path of a pitch which starts outside and then slides over the plate.
    He has a nasty back door slider.
  2. Achieved through indirect means.
  • back door slider

Verb

back door (third-person singular simple present back doors, present participle back dooring, simple past and past participle back doored)

  1. To attempt to accomplish by indirect means, especially when direct means are proscribed.
  2. (surfing) 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.
    • 1999, Mark Warren, Mark Warren's Atlas of Australian Surfing, traveller's, →ISBN, page 103:
      If you survive the heavy take-off at 'The Chair' (which is very close to the rocks) you will find you're in 'The Suck-up', which offers either a spectacular barrel or a bonecrunching wipeout, but you might find you have to back door it.

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