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back door

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, generally used in reference to anal sex.
(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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German: Hintertür
Italian: porta di dietro, porta di servizio, porta sul retro
Portuguese: porta dos fundos, porta traseira, porta de trás, porta do cavalo (informally)
Spanish: puerta trasera, puerta de atrás

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Adjective

back door (not comparable)

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

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Verb

back door (back doors, present participle back dooring; 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.
- 1999, Mark Warren, Mark Warren's Atlas of Australian Surfing, traveller's edition 1999, ISBN 0-7322-6731-5, 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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