Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering.
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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