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Meanings of bootlick in English
Usage of bootlick in English
1
Turned down for that fellow Prescott--thatshifty dodger and cheap bootlick!
2
And you've got to play politics, bootlick your boss-allthat.
3
Bah, as if I could ever get over my dislike for a bootlick like Prescott!
4
Bone bootlick on-tocultivate the favor of.
5
Occasionally a cadet who wants cadet honors resorts to "boning bootlick" with the tactical officers stationed at the academy.
6
He became a "bone," and tried so hard to delight his instructors that he was suspected of boning bootlick with the Academic Board.
7
But the crawling, bootlicking carpenter, Jacob Engstrand, is changed into a respectable, guileless man with an income.
8
"If those newspaper fellows get hold of it!" gasped Sir Arthur Poodle Bootlick...
9
"Wearing chevrons isn't the only sign of bootlick," replied Haynes.
10
"I'm not boning bootlick with cadets or with officers either," retorted Dick rather crisply.
11
"Oh, I know you have plenty of bootlicks," sneered Jordan.
12
"I've never been one of the authorities on bootlick."
13
"I don't stand for a bootlick," replied Cadet Stubbs.
14
"Then how can you stand for a bootlick?"
15
"Why," asked Hayes, opening his eyes rather wide, "are you boning bootlick with any but officers?"
16
"Boning bootlick" means to curry favor.
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