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bootlick definition

☆ boot·lick (-lik′)

transitive verb, intransitive verb

Informal to try to gain favor with (someone) by fawning, servility, etc.

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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