back door

Meanings

Noun

• 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.
• A secret means of access to a program or system.
• A rear side door of a car, or at the back of a van.
• The anus, generally used in reference to anal sex.
• The rear side of the hole, furthest from the golfer.

Adjective

• The path of a pitch which starts outside and then slides over the plate.
• Achieved through indirect means.

Verb

• To attempt to accomplish by indirect means, especially when direct means are proscribed.
• 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.

Related

Opposite words

• foredoor
• front door