backscratcher means 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. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 90 out of 100.
Etymology
From back + scratcher; also, by surface analysis, backscratch + -er.
noun
- 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.
- A participant in corruption, such as a briber or pay-to-play participant.“Pierre-Gilles had made a name for himself, but also wanted to give credit to his collaborators, whom he was always careful to cite in lectures, to the point that, for a joke, Daniel Saint-James and his colleague Gobalakichena Sarma created a "backscratchers club" named the 'Société de la brosse à reluire mutuelle' (SABRM) — mutual backscratching society — appointing Pierre-Gilles as its honorary c”