backdoor

 [bak-dawr, -dohr]   Origin

back·door

   [bak-dawr, -dohr]
adjective
secret; furtive; illicit; indirect.
Also, back-door.

Origin:
1605–15; adj. use of back door
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Backdoor is always a great word to know.
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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Word Origin & History

backdoor
"devious, shady, illegal," 1640s, from back + door. The notion is of business done out of public view. The association with sodomy is at least from 19c.; also back-door man "a married woman's lover," black slang, early 20c.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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