back door
100 synonyms found
- afterpart
- afterpiece
- archway
- back road
- back seat
- back side
- back stairs
- back street
- back way
- backstairs
- barway
- behind
- bolt-hole
- breech
- bulkhead
- by-lane
- bypass
- bypath
- byroad
- bystreet
- byway
- carriage entrance
- cellar door
- cellarway
- clandestine
- covert
- covert way
- detour
- door
- doorjamb
- doorpost
- doorway
- escalier derobe
- escape hatch
- escape route
- feline
- French door
- front door
- furtive
- gate
- gatepost
- gateway
- hatch
- hatchway
- heel
- hidlings
- hind end
- hind part
- hindhead
- hole-and-corner
- hugger-mugger
- lintel
- occiput
- porch
- portal
- porte cochere
- posterior
- postern
- privy
- propylaeum
- pylon
- rear
- rear end
- roundabout way
- scuttle
- secret exit
- secret passage
- secret staircase
- shifty
- side door
- side road
- side street
- skulking
- slinking
- slinky
- sly
- sneaking
- sneaky
- stealthy
- stern
- stile
- storm door
- surreptitious
- tail end
- tailpiece
- threshold
- tollgate
- trap
- trap door
- turnpike
- turnstile
- under-the-counter
- under-the-table
- undercover
- underground
- underground railroad
- underground route
- underhand
- underhanded
- unobtrusive
Definition
(n) :
a subsidiary entrance to a building or house at its rear, normally away from the street; a secret means of access to something
"he has a nasty back door slider."
(v) :
to attempt to accomplish by indirect means, especially when direct means are proscribed; to enter a tube by accelerating from behind; to surf into an already formed hollow wave, in contrast to the normal method of slowing to allow a surfable wave to form