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Corporate Backscratching 

When corporations use their multiple media outlets to cross promote.
When Tom Cruise goes on Jay Leno to promote his new movie getting released by Universal Studios which is owned by the same company, GE, that owns NBC. That's Corporate Backscratching my friends!

alabama backscratcher

When your girl is at the bottom of a very tall tree, spread eagle, waiting on you.
You climb to the top of the tree, naked. Jump off with your back facing the tree. As you're free-falling, you're jacking off and as your dick enters your girl you ejaculate and then plummet to your death.
Yo, did you hear about that guy jumping outta that tree?
Yeah man, didn't he give his girl the ol' alabama backscratcher?

Backscratching (Videogames) 

The act of shooting in the direction of teammates to kill enemies.

Typically in cooperative videogames, backscratching occurs when enemies are surrounding a friendly player or NPC, and the player shoots or attacks almost directly at the friendly player or NPC to clear the enemies off their back. This is more common in games with melee enemies and very little or no friendly fire damage, such as the popular and beloved Left 4 Dead series.

The term was originally comes from armored tank warfare, where if enemy infantry are crawling all over a friendly tank trying to plant a sticky bomb or open the hatch or shoot inside or something, a tank will shoot their machine gun directly at the friendly tank, causing ricochet to kill the enemy infantry, leaving the heavily armored friendly tank relatively unscathed.

Have you played Left 4 Dead 2 yet? Go play it and experience the magic of backscratching!

Term Officially Coined by the professional player Kazoooooooooooooooooooooo
Hey Ellis, Scratch My Back, I Got Fucking Zombies All Over Me! (in the game Left 4 Dead 2 by Valve)

That is Backscratching (Videogames), you should use the term!

Italian Backscratcher 

When a hairy man rubs his ballsack up and down the back of his significant other.
Sophia was in the mood for a back massage and Luigi suprised her with an Italian Backscratcher.
Italian Backscratcher by sybercruzn November 26, 2011

Backscratcher 

The only thing you can use against you itch
“Omg is he using a backscratcher, even I can’t afford that”

Bemidji Backscratch 

When fishing for muskie and another fish, such as a pike or gar, attempt to eat your bait boatside you may choose to respond with a Bemidji Backscratch. This is simply a firm, yet gentle "scooting"motion or slap with your rod tip on the offending fishes' back. Usually accompanied by encouragement to leave.
When a gar followed my Bobbie into the 8 on Wauby, I gave him the ol' Bemidji Backscratch and told him to git.
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Throat Sweats 

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Oh man those burritos gave me the throat sweats, I hope I don’t have food poisoning.
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Instead of doing my homework, I decided to piddlefart around for two hours.
piddlefart by Rene April 25, 2005
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square grouper

Nickname given to bales of marijuana thrown overboard or out of airplanes. Origin is reportedly from members of the US Coast Guard in the area of Southern Florida.
"Base we've got some square groupers floating outside of Miami harbor."
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