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Backdoor   /bˈækdˌɔr/   Listen
Backdoor

noun
1.
An undocumented way to get access to a computer system or the data it contains.  Synonym: back door.
2.
An entrance at the rear of a building.  Synonyms: back door, back entrance.
3.
A secret or underhand means of access (to a place or a position).  Synonym: back door.






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"Backdoor" Quotes from Famous Books



... Haroun-Al Raschid obtained through the medium of Arab travellers his great story of "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp." When governmental suspicions were thoroughly lulled, he arranged with a singing-girl to let him out by the backdoor of her house at dawn from whence he escaped to the railway-station, rapidly reaching Tientsin ...
— The Fight For The Republic In China • B.L. Putnam Weale

... probably has parents who may not relish the idea of having two strange men prowling about the premises looking for breakfast. There are still a few of those old-fashioned people left in the world. It may be only a backdoor hand-out for us, but I've sawed wood for breakfast before now. I'll wait for you below; I want to see how old Cassowary's standing the racket. The boy seemed a little ...
— The Madness of May • Meredith Nicholson



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