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back door

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
back door

▶noun

1 the rear door of a building.

2 [as modifier] underhand; clandestine: a back-door tax increase.

– phrases
by (or through) the back door in a clandestine or underhand way.

'back door' also found in these Oxford entries:

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back door / I'm out that door !
back door entry
breezing in the back door
hitted the door until he came back.
I left the house by the back door
the back door of something
the back of the door
to leave through the back-door.

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