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back door en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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Meanings

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, of a draw) 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 had to fold.

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back door slider

back door en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

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." 2023 January 11, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: castles and cathedrals”, in RAIL, number 974, page 57:
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. 2021 November 29, Alan Shearer, “Why Newcastle have to win their next two games to give them hope of staying in the Premier League - Alan Shearer analysis”, in BBC Sport:
3. (countable, qualifier:computer security, 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
   • go up the back door
6. (broadly, slang, uncountable) Anal sex.
   • Oh, don't be so judgmental. You could use a little back door. 1998 June 28, Michael Patrick King, “Valley of the Twenty-Something Guys”, in Sex and the City, season 1, episode 4, spoken by Samantha:
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. 2010, Bob Glanville, Golf: The Game of Lessening Failures, page 14:

Forms

Antonyms

foredoor · front door

Holonyms

backroom

Hyponyms

bugdoor

Relateds

back-door man · back-door bandit · back-door pilot

Synonyms

backgate

Translations (94)

pl tyłek (slang: anus) · de Hintertür (subsidiary entrance to building) · ru за́дняя дверь (subsidiary entrance to building) · hu kiskapu (secret, unprotected means of access) · yue 後庭 /后庭 (slang: anus) · bg за́ден вход (subsidiary entrance to building) · uk чо́рний хід (secret, unprotected means of access) · fo bakdyr (subsidiary entrance to building) · fi takaovi (secret, unprotected means of access) · is laumulegur (secret, unprotected means of access) · ja 裏口 (secret, unprotected means of access) · it porta sul retro (subsidiary entrance to building) · ja バックドア (computing: secret means of access) · is leynilegur (secret, unprotected means of access) · fi takaovi (subsidiary entrance to building) · sv baksätesdörr (automotive: rear door) · nl achterdeur (secret, unprotected means of access) · ru потайна́я дверь (secret, unprotected means of access) · pt porta de trás (automotive: rear door) · ja 裏戸 (secret, unprotected means of access) · ja 裏門 (secret, unprotected means of access) · ru бэкдо́р (computing: secret means of access) · es puerta trasera (subsidiary entrance to building) · pt backdoor (computing: secret means of access) · la postīcum (subsidiary entrance to building) · nn bakdør (secret, unprotected means of access) · el κερκόπορτα (secret, unprotected means of access) · uk ду́па (slang: anus) · mk за́ден влез (subsidiary entrance to building) · fi takaovi (automotive: rear door) · cmn 後門 /后门 (slang: anus) · pt porta dos fundos (subsidiary entrance to building) · pt porta traseira (automotive: rear door) · it porta di dietro (subsidiary entrance to building) · ko 후문 (subsidiary entrance to building) · ko 백도어 (computing: secret means of access) · cmn 後門 /后门 (subsidiary entrance to building) · pl tylne drzwi (subsidiary entrance to building) · mk газ (slang: anus) · mk за́дна вра́та (subsidiary entrance to building) · be ду́па (slang: anus) · de Backdoor (computing: secret means of access) · da bagdør (secret, unprotected means of access) · nl achterdeur (subsidiary entrance to building) · uk потайні́ две́рі (secret, unprotected means of access) · ar بَاب خَلْفِيّ (subsidiary entrance to building) · cmn 後門 /后门 (secret, unprotected means of access) · it porta di servizio (subsidiary entrance to building) · ru чёрный ход (secret, unprotected means of access) · nb bakdør (secret, unprotected means of access) · ko 뒷문 (subsidiary entrance to building) · ko 뒷문 (secret, unprotected means of access) · fi sivuovi (subsidiary entrance to building) · de hintere Seitentür (automotive: rear door) · ru лазе́йка (computing: secret means of access) · nb bakdør (subsidiary entrance to building) · ja 裏口 (subsidiary entrance to building) · pt porta de trás (subsidiary entrance to building) · cmn 後庭 /后庭 (slang: anus) · ru чёрный ход (computing: secret means of access) · pl tylne drzwi (automotive: rear door) · be патайны́я дзве́ры (secret, unprotected means of access) · de Hecktür (automotive: rear door) · pt porta traseira (subsidiary entrance to building) · ja 裏戸 (subsidiary entrance to building) · bg гъз (slang: anus) · fi takaportti (computing: secret means of access) · cy drws cefn (subsidiary entrance to building) · da bagdør (computing: secret means of access) · es puerta de atrás (subsidiary entrance to building) · hu hátsó ajtó/bejárat (subsidiary entrance to building) · yue 後門 /后门 (secret, unprotected means of access) · ru за́дний вход (subsidiary entrance to building) · de Hintertür (secret, unprotected means of access) · da bagdør (automotive: rear door) · sv bakdörr (subsidiary entrance to building) · uk за́дні две́рі (subsidiary entrance to building) · be чо́рны ход (secret, unprotected means of access) · pt porta dos fundos (secret, unprotected means of access) · ru жо́па (slang: anus) · it backdoor (computing: secret means of access) · ja 裏門 (subsidiary entrance to building) · yue 後門 /后门 (subsidiary entrance to building) · pt porta do cavalo (subsidiary entrance to building) · pl tylne drzwi (secret, unprotected means of access) · ja 裏口 (secret, unprotected means of access) · fi takaportti (secret, unprotected means of access) · nn bakdør (subsidiary entrance to building) · da bagdør (subsidiary entrance to building) · fi takaovi (slang: anus) · hu kerülőút (secret, unprotected means of access) · fi takaluukku (automotive: rear door) · be за́днія дзве́ры (subsidiary entrance to building) · pl backdoor (computing: secret means of access)

back door en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Meanings

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. 1999, Mark Warren, Mark Warren's Atlas of Australian Surfing, traveller's, →ISBN, page 103:
3. (qualifier:computer security, 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[…] 2018 February 26, Abhinav Singh, Nipun Jaswal, Monika Agarwal, Daniel Teixeira, Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook: Evade antiviruses, bypass firewalls, and exploit complex environments with the most widely used penetration testing framework, 3rd Edition, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 213:
   • Back in the session, we will rename the httpd.exe file to httpd.exe.backup, upload the backdoored version, and rename it to httpd.exe: msf exploit(handler) > sessions -i 1 [*] Starting interaction with 1... meterpreter > cd[…] 2019 July 18, Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez, Juned Ahmed Ansari, Daniel Teixeira, Abhinav Singh, Improving your Penetration Testing Skills: Strengthen your defense against web attacks with Kali Linux and Metasploit, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 453:
   • As an example, the generation algorithm for backdoored Dual EC picks a fixed group element Q, a random exponent d, and outputs as public key the pair P = Qd and Q. The secret key is d. (We use multiplicative notation for simplicity.)[…] 2015 April 13, Elisabeth Oswald, Marc Fischlin, Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2015: 34th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Sofia, Bulgaria, April 26-30, 2015, Proceedings, Part I, Springer, →ISBN, page 103:
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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front door

Translations (6)

it ottenere per vie traverse (to attempt to accomplish by indirect means) · pl zrobić potajemnie (to attempt to accomplish by indirect means) · pl robić potajemnie (to attempt to accomplish by indirect means) · fi tunkeutua (to attempt to accomplish by indirect means) · vi chạy cửa sau (to attempt to accomplish by indirect means) · vi đi cửa sau (to attempt to accomplish by indirect means)