bootlicked; bootlicking; bootlicks
: to try to gain favor with through a servile or obsequious manner
: to act obsequiously
bootlicker
noun
Examples of bootlick in a Sentence
the kind of office in which people feel they have to bootlick in order to get ahead
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Those who delay this fate the longest are bootlicking mediocrities — the survival of the sycophants.
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Michael Gerson, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Mar. 2018
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Michael Gerson, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Mar. 2018
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“Bootlick.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bootlick. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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