back door

Questions about back door

What does back door mean?

back door means "a secret or underhand means of access (to a place or a position)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for back door?

Close synonyms include backdoor, backdoor, backdoor, back entrance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is back door a common word?

back door is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.