back door

NOUN
  1. an undocumented way to get access to a computer system or the data it contains
  2. a secret or underhand means of access (to a place or a position)
    he got his job through the back door
  3. an entrance at the rear of a building
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How To Use back door In A Sentence

  • At the back door, out of inexorable necessity, in developed and convincingness and sincerity laid down by all authorities on the art of the short story. Confession
  • Eadie said just before 2 pm, as she was about to prepare a late lunch, she looked out the back door and called out to her mother, pensioner Millie, only to see the gushes of water and slush cascading from the neighbour's yard.
  • She opened the back door only to see thrown down on the lawn an empty can of her bully beef and, to make matters worse, an empty tin of her cat's food!
  • The pudgy man growled and turned away, entering the factory through a back door.
  • Smoking is only allowed at the rear of the aircraft. It is more usual to talk about the back door of a house but the rear exit of an aircraft or public building. If something is behind something else it is near to the back of it but not part of it. Compare:Our room was at the back of the hotel and There's a lovely wood just behind our hotel.
  • In a moment of blind panic, I crashed through the back door, the door clanging on its frame as it snapped back into place.
  • In Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief, diamond-nabber Bill Mason notes notes a strange security trend: people will spend big bucks to have a whole host ultra-sophisticated locks on their front doors -- but they'll put something flimsy on the back door, or leave the windows unlocked altogether. Defense Tech: Lock the back door, too
  • The front door opened onto a large hallway which ran all the way through the rest of the house to the back door; its lime-bleached walls enhanced the reddish patina of the ground-floor windows, as well as the studwork and the polished wood of the doorways. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
  • Security threats often sneak in the back door via browser add - ons and plug - ins .
  • Pulling off my dirty pinny and revealing my clean black uniform underneath I hurried out of the house and around to the back door of the Thornton's house.
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