bootlick

Example Sentences

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"Bootlick, bootlick," I heard in murmurs all over the hall.

From The Harbor by Poole, Ernest

"I don't stand for a bootlick," replied Cadet Stubbs.

From Dick Prescotts's Fourth Year at West Point Ready to Drop the Gray for Shoulder Straps by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)

Or a manufacturer and having to bootlick the buyers?

From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins

At Yale, and other colleges, a tutor or any other officer who informs against the students, or acts as a spy upon their conduct, is also called a bootlick.

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer

Turned down for that fellow Prescott—-that shifty dodger and cheap bootlick!

From Dick Prescott's Third Year at West Point Standing Firm for Flag and Honor by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)