Backdoor (disambiguation)

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In typical English usage, a back door is the door around the back of a building. Thus, "employees must enter the store via the back door." Several concepts are named after it:

• In computing, a backdoor is a hidden method for bypassing normal authentication systems.
• To backdoor is to do something, such as getting a job, through having some unfair advantage. For example, "I backdoored my admission to Yale. I bribed the admissions officer." See also guanxi.
• Back Door were a British jazz trio, drums sax and bass guitar, who played in the bar of the highest pub on the Yorkshire moors during the late 1970s. They made two albums, Back Door and 8th Street Nites. Their use of the bass guitar was ahead of its time.
• In serialized fiction, a backdoor is a writing technique in which the writer provides a possible solution to reverse any potentially unpopular decision that's currently being done (such as killing off a popular recurring character).
• In Jazz Music Theory, a Backdoor Progression is a characteristic harmonic device found in many Jazz Standards.
• Backdoor is slang for the anus.
• In baseball, a backdoor pitch, usually a cutter or a breaking ball, is a pitch that deceives the batter by barely crossing the outside part of the plate at the last possible moment.