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Definition of Back door
1. Noun. A secret or underhand means of access (to a place or a position). "He got his job through the back door"
2. Noun. An undocumented way to get access to a computer system or the data it contains.
3. Noun. An entrance at the rear of a building.
Definition of Back door
1. Noun. A subsidiary entrance to a building or house at its rear, normally away from the street. ¹
2. Noun. A means of access, often secret and unprotected, to something. ¹
3. Noun. (computing) A secret means of access to a program or system. ¹
4. Noun. (slang) The anus, generally used in reference to anal sex. ¹
5. Adjective. (US baseball) The path of a pitch which starts outside and then slides over the plate. ¹
6. Verb. To attempt to accomplish by indirect means, especially when direct means are proscribed. ¹
7. Verb. (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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Back Door
Literary usage of Back door
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"Back - door sodomy. Back-breakers. According to the evidence taken before the
Children's Employment Commission, the ganger who contracts to do the work ..."
2. Southern History of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1865)
"Butler's Operations on the South Side of the James.—" The Beast" at the Back-Door
of Richmond.—He is Driven to Bermuda Hundred by ..."
3. Mind in Evolution by Leonard Trelawney Hobhouse (1901)
"Thus, in one of my experiments, a dog is held at the back of the house, and sees
his master go in through the back door and reappear at the dining-room ..."
4. El Salvador at War: An Oral History of Conflict from the 1979 Insurrection edited by Max G. Manwaring, Court Prisk (1995)
"Through the back door of the White House President Jose Napoleon Duarte—The first
time I entered the White House was through the back door, ..."
5. Klondike: The Chicago Record's Book for Gold Seekers (1897)
"The back door route starts from St. Paul and Minneapolis by way of the Soo line
and the Canadian Pacific, and is all rail as far as Edmonton. ..."
6. Inside the German Empire in the Third Year of the War by Herbert Bayard Swope (1917)
"WITH Germany's front door on the sea locked by the British navy, she has fought
bitterly and well to keep her back door open. No consideration of the empire ..."
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