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- noun A
massage of theback .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I'm not saying that every backrub should be a testing zone for a new lover, of course; sometimes, a backrub is just a backrub.
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The woman giving the backrub was a peer, an equal: someone else dealing with real or perceived staff judgments, someone with whom the patient didn't need to be ashamed.
Archive 2006-11-01 Susan Palwick 2006
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Giving us a backrub is a far more eloquent way of asking.
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That good kind of backrub that almost hurts, it's so intense.
idiot-milk Diary Entry idiot-milk 2004
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Graduate students at Stanford University, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, developed "backrub," a search engine that relied on a mathematical algorithm to rate the prominence of web pages.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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First, a hilariously winking "backrub" scene from the original
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First, a hilariously winking "backrub" scene from the original
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I finish off with Too Similar and give her a quick backrub, qualify her on my standards, then we extract to Club Jeffy, under the pretense of “smoking weed.”
Get Laid or Die Trying Jeff Allen 2011
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These photos look disturbingly similar to the infamous George Bush-Angela Merkel backrub.
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I don't ask much of the people who read this blog, only for their undying devotion and the occasional backrub.
24: Garofalo lives to annoy another day Tyler 2009
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