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backscratcher

The English word “backscratcher” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A long slender rod with a rake-like device on one end, sometimes in the form of a human hand, designed to let a person scratch their own back.
  2. A participant in corruption, such as a briber or pay-to-play participant.

Etymology

From back + scratcher; also, by surface analysis, backscratch + -er.

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