bootlick

Example Sentences

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

From The Harbor by Poole, Ernest

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 Hall, Benjamin Homer

Or a manufacturer and having to bootlick the buyers?

From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins

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)

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

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