back door

== English == === Alternative forms === backdoor, back-door === Pronunciation === === Noun === back door (plural back doors) A subsidiary entrance to a building or house at its rear, normally away from the street. A means of access, often secret and unprotected, to something. (computer security) A secret means of access to a program or system. (automotive) A rear side door of a car, or at the back of a van. (slang) The anus; (by extension) anal sex. Synonym: backgate backdoor action go up the back door (golf, informal) The rear side of the hole, furthest from the golfer. ==== Antonyms ==== foredoor front door ==== Hyponyms ==== bugdoor ==== Derived terms ==== back-door bandit back-door man back-door pilot ==== Translations ==== === Adjective === back door (not comparable) (US, baseball) The path of a pitch which starts outside and then slides over the plate. Achieved through indirect means. (poker, of a draw) Requiring consecutive cards on the turn and river to be achieved. ==== Related terms ==== back door slider === Verb === back door (third-person singular simple present back doors, present participle back dooring, simple past and past participle back doored) To attempt to accomplish by indirect means, especially when direct means are proscribed. (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. (computer security) To add a backdoor (a secret means of access) to a program or system. ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== front door === Further reading === back door on Wikipedia.Wikipedia backdoor (computing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “back-door n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present