logrolling

Meanings

1. The rolling of logs from one place to another; an occasion when people meet to help each other roll logs.
2. The act of balancing on a log floating on a river to guide it downstream, often involving rolling it using one's feet; birling.
3. A sport in which two people balance on a log floating in a body of water, each one aiming to cause the opponent to fall off by rolling or kicking the log.
4. A concerted effort to push forward mutually advantageous legislative agendas by combining two items, either or both of which might fail on its own, into a single bill that is more likely to pass.
5. Mutual recommendation of friends' or colleagues' services or products, such as book recommendations in literary reviews.

1. present participle and gerund of logroll.

Etymology

From log + rolling, the figurative senses from the practice of neighbors helping each other do heavy work such as rolling logs in connection with clearing land and building.

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