backscratcher

British  

/ ˈbækˌskrætʃə /

noun

1. an implement with a long handle, used for scratching one's back

2. informal a person who provides a service, corporate or public money etc, for another, in order to receive a similar service or reward in return

---

Other Word Forms

• backscratching noun

Example Sentences

A lorry driver and his wife who won £3.6m on the lottery said their first purchase was a £17 backscratcher.

From BBC

Like the backscratcher, it is made to order — but the right gift is often one worth waiting for.

From New York Times

Here, in the foreground — quite inexplicably — is an upside-down milk bottle spilling its contents into the grass, and a long-handled backscratcher.

From Washington Post

Along with the wok, the company includes in its packaging a bamboo backscratcher.

From Forbes

There was a box of broken hockey sticks, repurposed as backscratchers, and a table on which discs of stadium dirt from around baseball were piled like poker chips.

From New York Times