Back door

adj, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    The path of a pitch which starts outside and then slides over the plate. US, not-comparable

    "He has a nasty back door slider."

  2. 2
    Achieved through indirect means. not-comparable
  3. 3
    Requiring consecutive cards on the turn and river to be achieved. not-comparable

    "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."

Noun
  1. 1
    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. 2
    a secret or underhand means of access (to a place or a position) wordnet
  3. 3
    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."

  4. 4
    an entrance at the rear of a building wordnet
  5. 5
    A secret means of access to a program or system.
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  1. 6
    an undocumented way to get access to a computer system or the data it contains wordnet
  2. 7
    A rear side door of a car, or at the back of a van.
  3. 8
    The anus; (by extension) anal sex. slang

    "backdoor action"

  4. 9
    The rear side of the hole, furthest from the golfer. informal

    "Sometimes the ball will curve around and enter from the back-door."

Verb
  1. 1
    To attempt to accomplish by indirect means, especially when direct means are proscribed.
  2. 2
    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. 3
    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[…]"

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