Citations:reach-around

Noun: "manual stimulation of a sexual partner's genitals during anal or vaginal intercourse from behind"

 * 1987 — Full Metal Jacket:
 * Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: I'll bet you're the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around!
 * 1994 — Tim Willocks, Green River Rising, p. 181:
 * From one end to the other, she'd said. Goddamn. This time, he resolved, he'd even try to remember to give her a reach around.
 * 2002 — John E Douglas, David Terrenoire, Man Down: A Broken Wings Thriller, p. 282:
 * It's the part that goes around your buddy's dick when you give him a reach-around, that's your palm, and I want you sitting on it.
 * 2006 — N. Frank Daniels, Futureproof, p. 111:
 * ...Which means that your people, the people of Appalachia, have been getting fucked in the ass without even the common courtesy of a reach-around for years.

Noun: "an ostensibly thoughtful gesture, especially one performed to win favour or mitigate unfair treatment"

 * 2009 — "Boivin", "A Decade of Dreck #3: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li", Charge Shot!!!, 6 November 2009:
 * 1994's Street Fighter apsires [sic] to be nothing but a giant reach-around for Street Fighter fans, its example was completely lost on the people behind the Legend of Chun-Li.
 * 2009 — Steve Dublanica, Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip - Confessions of a Cynical Waiter, HarperCollins (2009), ISBN 9780061256691, page 138:
 * Chefs, owners, suppliers, dining-out guides, and food critics fall over one another with ass-kissing cross promotions, each trying to become the next Emeril, Gourmet magazine, or Zagat. I just wish waiters could get a reach around once in a while. We seem to have been left out of the loop.
 * 2010 — Carol Tice, "McDonald’s Comes Out of the Closet With Its Big Gay Ad (Though Only in French)", BNET, 4 June 2010:
 * Staying off American TV and using the Internet to spread its message, McDonald’s has done a reach-around to the audience it wanted and an end-run around Red State right-wingers who might cause a stink over the ad if it popped up on their sets.
 * 2010 — Tim Carman, "The Best and Worst of ‘Top Chef’ D.C., Episode 4", Washington City Paper, 9 July 2010:
 * The elimination round was a reach-around to the Hilton hotel chain, which no doubt needed some free help to devise a new dish for its menus.
 * 2011 — Ravi Singh, "Metal Gear MGO fan rendition coming soon", Kojima Productions Network, 24 August 2011:
 * Quite often it seems like the folks at Kojima Productions forget about the two games that started what they now call the Metal Gear Solid series. Sure we get a reach around once in a while—just recently it was announced that both Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake will be included in the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection–but when it comes to press releases they are usually omitted.
 * 2011 — Taylor Marsh, "ISRAEL: Rick Perry’s ‘Appeasement’ Not Befitting An American President", TaylorMarsh.com, 21 September 2011:
 * Rick Perry represents the worst of right-wing politics. Using Israel to give a reach-around to the evangelical right-wing, including anti-Catholic Pastor John Hagee, part of the group Ronald Reagan allowed to begin to manipulate our politics through faith, is something the founders would have abhorred.