back scratching
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
44 Moby Thesaurus words for "back scratching":
apple-polishing, ass-kissing, backscratching, barter, bootlicking,
brown-nosing, cringing, even trade, fawnery, fawning, flunkyism,
footlicking, groveling, handshaking, influence peddling,
ingratiation, insinuation, lobbying, lobbyism, logrolling,
mealymouthedness, obeisance, obsequiousness, parasitism,
political influence, pork barrel, prostration, public opinion,
social pressure, special-interest pressure, sponging, swap,
swapping, switch, sycophancy, timeserving, toadeating, toadying,
toadyism, trade, trading, truckling, tufthunting, wire-pulling
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