bootlick

Example Sentences

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"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)

Or a manufacturer and having to bootlick the buyers?

From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins

"Then how can you stand for a bootlick?" shot out Jordan angrily.

From Dick Prescotts's Fourth Year at West Point Ready to Drop the Gray for Shoulder Straps 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)

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

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