bootlick
Example Sentences
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"Bootlick, bootlick," I heard in murmurs all over the hall.
From The Harbor by Poole, Ernest
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)
Or a manufacturer and having to bootlick the buyers?
From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins
Occasionally a cadet who wants cadet honors resorts to "boning bootlick" with the tactical officers stationed at the academy.
From Dick Prescott's Third Year at West Point Standing Firm for Flag and Honor by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
"Prescott would, if he were a tenth part of the bootlick that you represent him to be," replied Stubbs.
From Dick Prescotts's Fourth Year at West Point Ready to Drop the Gray for Shoulder Straps by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.