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单词 back door
释义 back door
noun
1.
 a. : a door in the back or to the rear of something, especially a habitation
 b. : an entrance or approach (as to a country) regarded as at the back and usually distant or geographically opposite the main route of approach
  < but the richest area of all the peninsula was found … at the back door of Nome — Encyc. Americana >
  < the back door of Egypt — Hassoldt Davis >
2. : an indirect, surreptitious, underhanded, or illegal means or way
 < the West entered America's popular literature through the back door of humor — J.D.Hart >
 < depends more and more on western back doors for essential war supplies — Amerasia >
 < a junk shop with a back-door trade in hides from illegally killed cattle — H.L.Davis >
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