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back door

noun back doors · backdoor · back-door

  1. countable, uncountable A subsidiary entrance to a building or house at its rear, normally away from the street. "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. countable, uncountable A means of access, often secret and unprotected, to something. 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. countable, uncountable A secret means of access to a program or system.
  4. countable, uncountable A rear side door of a car, or at the back of a van.
  5. countable, slang, uncountable The anus (usually in sexual practices). backdoor action
  6. broadly, slang, uncountable Anal sex. Oh, don't be so judgmental. You could use a little back door.
  7. countable, informal, uncountable The rear side of the hole, furthest from the golfer. Sometimes the ball will curve around and enter from the back-door.

adjective backdoor · back-door

  1. US, not comparable The path of a pitch which starts outside and then slides over the plate. He has a nasty back door slider.
  2. not comparable Achieved through indirect means. Lately there's been a lot of back door pressure on me to step down.
  3. not comparable Requiring consecutive cards on the turn and river to be achieved. The flop had the ace of spades, queen of spades, and two of diamonds, and I was holding the king of spades and the three of hearts. I bet big, hoping for a jack and a ten to make my back door straight-draw, or a spade to make my back door flush-draw. But when the turn card was the five of clubs, I h

verb back doors · back dooring · back doored · backdoor · back-door

  1. To attempt to accomplish by indirect means, especially when direct means are proscribed.
  2. transitive 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. 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.
  3. transitive To add a backdoor (a secret means of access) to a program or system. Now that we have backdoored the notepad.exe binary, we will go back to the Meterpreter session and upload our backdoor: 3. Then, we need to start a listener so we. meterpreter > upload notepad-backdoored.exe [*] uploading[…]
  4. slang, transitive To betray (someone); to double-cross (someone); to set (someone) up; to take advantage of (someone's) trust.

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