Usually means: Sycophantic behavior to gain favor.
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  1. brown-nosing, brown-nosing: Collins English Dictionary
  2. brown-nosing: Vocabulary.com
  3. brown-nosing: Wordnik
  4. brown-nosing: Wiktionary
  5. brown-nosing, brown nosing: Dictionary.com
  6. Brown nosing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. brown-nosing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  2. brown-nosing: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brown nosing: Urban Dictionary


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