Definitions

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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They escaped out a back door as the fire took hold.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

Gil hustled to the back of the store, opened the back door to the encampment, and called out to the entire population.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

Rudra Bahadur Kami returned to Nepal through a back door of Kathmandu airport in a battered coffin after working for more than a decade in Saudi Arabia to feed his family back home.

From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026

"They tried to eat their way through the back door of my house and it had to be replaced," Earley said.

From BBC • Jan. 12, 2026

I hid my net behind a big lilac bush in Grandma’s front yard, walked around the house, and came in through the back door.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

back door

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