Definitions
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- noun A long
slender rod with a rake-like device on one end, sometimes in the form of ahuman hand, designed to let a person scratch his own back.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a long-handled scratcher for scratching your back
- noun someone who is willing to trade favors or services for mutual advantage
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Examples
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Wow, I gave you serious advice for you finger and you say 'backscratcher'.
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Wow, I gave you serious advice for you finger and you say 'backscratcher'.
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Wow, I gave you serious advice for you finger and you say 'backscratcher'.
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Wow, I gave you serious advice for you finger and you say 'backscratcher'.
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Wow, I gave you serious advice for you finger and you say 'backscratcher'.
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Wow, I gave you serious advice for you finger and you say 'backscratcher'.
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Wow, I gave you serious advice for you finger and you say 'backscratcher'.
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You were always generous in blessing me with outrageous birthday presents— a backscratcher, water glasses inscribed with the phrase,“Give it to me baby, uh huh, uh huh.”
Leather David Cotrone 2011
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What this country come to when a politician can't go out of the country to pick up a new backscratcher without all this fuss?
Business as usual for embattled South Carolina governor 2009
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Select backscratcher, press about item, add wooden stick, then add string.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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