Ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior.
1She stuffed cotton up her nose and took two Tylenol with codeine.
2It took several men to roll a single bale of cotton up the gangway.
3I can roll the cotton up on wooden toothpicks and peddle them as sterile swabs.
4Well, I git the drop on him, and then you begin to cotton up to him right away.
5Owen saw the success of the woolen-mill, and declared that to bring cotton up by steamboat from the South would be easy.