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Synonyms of bootlicker
a person who flatters another in order to get ahead
- she's such a bootlicker that I don't take any of her compliments seriously
Synonyms for bootlicker
- apple-polisher,
- brownnoser,
- fawner,
- flunky
- (also flunkey or flunkie),
- lickspittle,
- suck-up,
- sycophant,
- toady
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