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UK
/bˈækdɔː/
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[ US /ˈbækˌdɔɹ/ ]
[ US /ˈbækˌdɔɹ/ ]
NOUN
- an undocumented way to get access to a computer system or the data it contains
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a secret or underhand means of access (to a place or a position)
he got his job through the back door - an entrance at the rear of a building
How To Use backdoor In A Sentence
- He brushed aside talk of greedy MPs voting themselves a backdoor pay rise.
- This defeat very obviously hurt, with the backdoor of the qualifiers only a modest modicum of consolation.
- The Republican Party's backdoor bailout of wealthy bankers is bigger than the auto-industry bailout. Richard (RJ) Eskow: Backdoor Bailout, Tea Party Fakeout: The GOP's Secret $90 Billion Gift to Wall Street
- In one recent sequence against Chicago, he successfully denied Ben Gordon the ball in the wing area and then was able to recover and deny Gordon's quick backdoor cut.
- They reached the backdoor and Hanna and Eric walked inside, the appetizing aroma of baking floating in the air.
- Another soldier asked about the stop-loss programme, dubbed the backdoor draft by critics. Mail and Guardian
- We have got what we call a backdoor cold front which is dropping through the region. CNN Transcript May 13, 2007
- The Santa Teresa or Salkantay Trek is sometimes referred to as the backdoor route to the ruins. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
- Most Americans don’t trust our politicians and to pass something this massive through the backdoor is not going to help congress earn that trust. Think Progress » Pete Sessions Agrees That ‘Deem And Pass’ Is Legitimate
- In this day and age of backdoors, worms, trojans and other sneak attacks, you never know who's watching.
