backdoor



backdoor

1. adjective Done or achieved in a clandestine, stealthy, illegal and/or illicit way, or by such means. Such backdoor appointments of its chief members of staff make me worry that nepotism is rife within the company. They were arrested by customs agents for their backdoor import of cheap tobacco into the country.
2. verb To use deceitful, duplicitous, or morally questionable means to circumvent someone's authority, influence, or integrity for the sake of one's personal gains. Government agents tried to backdoor the activist by planting discrediting information about her in newspapers.

backdoor man

A man having an affair with a married woman. I can't believe you're having an affair with a married woman! That makes you a dirty, rotten backdoor man!
See also: backdoor, man

backdoor trot(s)

n. a case of diarrhea. (From the time when people had to go out the back door to the outhouse.) I can’t go out tonight. I got a case of the backdoor trots.
See also: backdoor, trot

backdoor trot

verb
See also: backdoor, trot

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Beathan-Scottish
KataKAH-tah (Finnish)Hungarian, Finnish, Croatian
EustaceYOO-stəsEnglish
Philon-Ancient Greek
Cierasee-ER-əEnglish (Modern)
Rowland['rəulənd]