bootlick
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At Yale, and other colleges, a tutor or any other officer who informs against the students, or acts as a spy upon their conduct, is also called a bootlick.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
Or a manufacturer and having to bootlick the buyers?
From Success A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams
And you've got to play politics, bootlick your boss—all that.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 by Various
"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 H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
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 H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
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