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back door
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun back door has 3 senses
- back door(n = noun.act) backdoor - a secret or underhand means of access (to a place or a position); "he got his job through the back door" is a kind of access
- back door(n = noun.communication) backdoor - an undocumented way to get access to a computer system or the data it contains; Array is a kind of access, access code
- back door(n = noun.artifact) back entrance, backdoor - an entrance at the rear of a building; Array is a kind of exterior door, outside door
CIDE DICTIONARY
back door,
A door in the back part of a building; hence, an indirect way. Atterbury. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
back door
French door, afterpart, afterpiece, archway, back, back road, back seat, back side, back stairs, back street, back way, backstairs, barway, behind, bolt-hole, breech, bulkhead, by-lane, bypass, bypath, byroad, bystreet, byway, carriage entrance, cellar door, cellarway, clandestine, covert, covert way, detour, door, doorjamb, doorpost, doorway, escalier derobe, escape hatch, escape route, feline, front door, furtive, gate, gatepost, gateway, hatch, hatchway, heel, hidlings, hind end, hind part, hindhead, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, lintel, occiput, porch, portal, porte cochere, posterior, postern, privy, propylaeum, pylon, quiet, rear, rear end, rearward, reverse, roundabout way, scuttle, secret exit, secret passage, secret staircase, shifty, side door, side road, side street, skulking, slinking, slinky, sly, sneaking, sneaky, stealthy, stern, stile, storm door, surreptitious, tail, tail end, tailpiece, threshold, tollgate, trap, trap door, turnpike, turnstile, under-the-counter, under-the-table, undercover, underground, underground railroad, underground route, underhand, underhanded, unobtrusive
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