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backgate (plural backgates)
- (electronics) A gate that supplies a negative voltage.
- Alternative form of back gate
- (slang) The anus.
- Synonym: back door
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[15]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
- You were a nicelooking Miriam when you clipped off your backgate hairs and lay swooning in the thing across the bed as Mrs Dandrade about to be violated by lieutenant Smythe-Smythe, […]