backgate

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Etymology

From back +‎ gate.

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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, “”, 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, []

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