bootlick

Example Sentences

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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)

"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

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)

And you've got to play politics, bootlick your boss—all that.

From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 by Various