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backscratchers

backscratchers is the plural of backscratcher.

Meaning of backscratcher

Noun

backscratcher (plural backscratchers)

  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. (figuratively, uncommon) 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...2011, Laurence Plévert, “Team Leader”, in Pierre-Gilles de Gennes: A Life in Science, World Scientific, →ISBN, pages 119-120

Questions about backscratchers

What is backscratchers the plural of?
Backscratchers is the plural of backscratcher.

Words near backscratchers in the dictionary

  1. backscene
  2. backscenes
  3. backscratch
  4. backscratched
  5. backscratcher
  6. backscratchers
  7. backscratches
  8. backscratching
  9. backscratchings
  10. backscreen
  11. backscreens

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