: involving or being a play in basketball in which a player moves behind the defense and toward the basket to receive a quick pass
a backdoor layup
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That has businesses sounding an alarm about a possible backdoor tax hike.
BORROWING AUTHORITY: Both parties in Congress face tough choices in a sprint to avoid a government default by legislatively lifting the cap on borrowing to pay U.S. bills.—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 26 Mar. 2025 Jenkins worries the court could use this case as a backdoor way to undermine the vote dilution protections of the Voting Rights Act, even though those protections were upheld two years ago.—Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2025 Which means Apple understandably fears businesses using the DMA as a backdoor way of attaining access to extraordinarily valuable user information that Apple goes to great lengths to keep private.—John Tamny, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025 Investors who earn too much for a Roth IRA can use the backdoor method to fund it.—Marc Guberti, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for backdoor
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