back door

NOUN

back entrance

Synonyms

STRONGEST

side door

WEAK

back entrance back stairs back way escape hatch indirect access means of entry postern postern door secret exit secretive or illicit method trap door trapdoor wormhole

Example Sentences

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But if that was the case, then McLaren was the hopeless character who forgot to bolt the back door.

From The Wall Street Journal

Which is what she did one cold evening two years ago, slipping out the back door while I was on the phone.

From The Wall Street Journal

I don’t bother to throw any shoes on; I just grab my father’s old letterman jacket and wrench the back door open.

From Literature

She had woken from a nap to find her back door open and her son missing, according to a police report.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I started coming here in the ‘90s, sneaking in through the back door.

From Los Angeles Times