logrolling
logrolling Lexical Profile
logrolling Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The practice of exchanging favors, especially in politics by reciprocal voting for each other's proposed legislation.
"The infrastructure bill finally passed after weeks of intense behind-the-scenes logrolling among senators."
North American A competitive sport in which two contestants balance on opposite ends of a floating log and spin it with their feet to make the opponent fall into the water.
"The annual lumberjack festival features traditional events such as axe throwing, pole climbing, and logrolling."
Word Origin & Etymology
Coined in early 19th-century American English, the political sense derives from the frontier custom where neighbors gathered to help one another roll felled timber into piles for burning or transport, encapsulated in the proverb "you roll my log and I'll roll yours."