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What is a backstabber?

What is a backstabber? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A traitor or hypocrite, such as a co-worker or friend assumed trustworthy but who figuratively attacks when one's back is turned.
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Would you mind being compared to Gollum, the slimy, bulged-eyed backstabber from JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings fantasy novels?
Fans had been waiting for months to unleash their anger, to call James a traitor and a backstabber and a fraud at close range.
However, Prince felt betrayed and had massive fights with her and called her a backstabber for getting to know Rowe.
He's already turned up in The Australian with his private campaign submission – virtually at least – characterising her as a backstabber driven by ambition.
Among the figures slammed by Hariri is former Lebanese prime minister Najeeb Mekaty whom he describes as a backstabber.
After arriving in Hollywood and giving a deserved comeuppance to a backstabber, he realizes that Tinsel Town is not the place he thought, and hoped, it would be.

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