backscratched

Verb

backscratch (third-person singular simple present backscratches, present participle backscratching, simple past and past participle backscratched)

1. To scratch one's or another's back.
   • That thought appeared to discompose her greatly, though Jasper made light of it by rapidly back-scratching with his hind legs and giving a short stern bark, just to assure her that strangers would be rushed off the property on sight.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 127
2. (slang) To engage in a reciprocal beneficial action.
   • It was backscratched into existence, cost nearly a billion pounds, and now they are wondering why they let it happen.2003, Ralph Steadman, Doodaaa: The Balletic Art of Gavin Twinge, page 105

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