backgate

See also: back gate

English

Alternative forms

• back-gate

Etymology

From back +‎ gate.

Pronunciation

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Noun

backgate (plural backgates)

1. (electronics) A gate that supplies a negative voltage.
2. Alternative form of back gate
3. (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, […]

Derived terms

• backgated