'back scratching' definitions:
Synonyms of 'back scratching'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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