bootlick
Example Sentences
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And you've got to play politics, bootlick your boss—all that.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 by Various
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've never been one of the authorities on bootlick."
From Dick Prescott's Third Year at West Point Standing Firm for Flag and Honor by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
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)
He became a "bone," and tried so hard to delight his instructors that he was suspected of boning bootlick with the Academic Board.
From Dick Prescott's Third Year at West Point Standing Firm for Flag and Honor by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
