backdoor

backdoor
   1. the anus
   Mainly homosexual use. However, a back-door man was also a married woman's extramarital sexual partner. If he did the back-door trot, it was not because the husband had come home unexpectedly, but to the lavatory with diarrhoea.
   See also front door.
   2. to pass information improperly
   Open communications are supposedly made through the front door:
    Don't backdoor me. I'll hear it from the DA in court. (Turow, 1996 — a policeman was trying to pass information to a judge outside the courtroom)
   3. involving bribery or impropriety
   Again from the concealment:
    Hoo-men or 'backdoor business' was what oiled the heels of the new entrepreneurial China. (Strong, 1998)

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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