bootlick
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"Bootlick, bootlick," I heard in murmurs all over the hall.
From The Harbor by Ernest Poole
And you've got to play politics, bootlick your boss—all that.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 by Various
"I've never been one of the authorities on bootlick."
From Dick Prescott's Third Year at West Point Standing Firm for Flag and Honor by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
You have to be a bit of a bootlick, and people will give you tips, which is against all scout rules.”
From Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies by Walter Prichard Eaton
Or a manufacturer and having to bootlick the buyers?
From Success A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams
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