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bootlick

verb
boot·​lick | \ ˈbüt-ËŒlik How to pronounce bootlick (audio) \
bootlicked; bootlicking; bootlicks

Definition of bootlick

transitive verb

: to try to gain favor with through a servile or obsequious manner

intransitive verb

: to act obsequiously
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Other Words from bootlick

bootlicker noun

Examples of bootlick in a Sentence

the kind of office in which people feel they have to bootlick in order to get ahead

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 Those who delay this fate the longest are bootlicking mediocrities — the survival of the sycophants. — Michael Gerson, Anchorage Daily News, "Trump unbound amid a cloud of chaos," 18 Mar. 2018

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First Known Use of bootlick

1845, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

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