backdoor
IPA: bˈækdɔr
noun
- Alternative spelling of back door. [A subsidiary entrance to a building or house at its rear, normally away from the street.]
verb
- Alternative spelling of back door [To attempt to accomplish by indirect means, especially when direct means are proscribed.]
back door
IPA: bˈækdˈɔr
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.
- (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.
verb
- 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.
- (computing) to add a backdoor (a secret means of access) to a program or system.
adjective
- (US, baseball) The path of a pitch which starts outside and then slides over the plate.
- Achieved through indirect means.
- (poker, of a draw) Requiring consecutive cards on the turn and river to be achieved.