Definitions for backdoor

backdoor back·door

Spelling: [bak-dawr, -dohr]
IPA: /ˈbækˈdɔr, -ˈdoʊr/

Backdoor is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 204 anagrams from letters in backdoor (abcdkoor).

Definitions for backdoor

adjective

  1. secret; furtive; illicit; indirect.

Origin of backdoor

First recorded in 1605-15; adj. use of back door

Examples for backdoor

It was as though he had walked round the house of literature, and peeped in at the backdoor.

Yet, after months of backdoor negotiations there was Xi, stone-facedly shaking hands with a smirking Abe.

The fire was built in the passage near the backdoor where I stood.

Nor was there anything the least clandestine in this backdoor trade of Herman's on the Sabbath.

In Kafr Kanna, because of the blocked highway exit, The Daily Beast was forced to use a backdoor entry to town.

The defenders of backdoor searches argue that the same rule should apply in the section 702 situation.

That's happening thanks to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Survillence Act, the very "backdoor" discussed here.

So unhappy she was that George immediately planned her a backdoor of excuse.

Instantly the backdoor assumed the chief position of interest.

But he also would have helped to keep calls for a smaller federal government from being seen as a backdoor attempt at Jim Crow.

Word Value for backdoor
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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