bootlick

Example Sentences

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

From The Harbor by Poole, Ernest

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

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

Or a manufacturer and having to bootlick the buyers?

From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins

You have to be a bit of a bootlick, and people will give you tips, which is against all scout rules.”

From Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies by Eaton, Walter Prichard

"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)