Usually means: Excessive flattery for personal gain.
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  1. bootlicking: Merriam-Webster
  2. bootlicking: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bootlicking: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bootlicking: Vocabulary.com
  5. bootlicking: Wordnik
  6. bootlicking: Wiktionary
  7. bootlicking: Dictionary.com
  8. bootlicking: Rhymezone
  9. bootlicking: FreeDictionary.org
  10. bootlicking: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. bootlicking: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. bootlicking: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bootlicking)

▸ noun:  servile behaviour
▸ noun:  (literally) The act of licking someone's boot, typically as a BDSM activity.

Similar:
toadyish, sycophantic, fawning, obsequious, insincere, footlicking, bowing and scraping, bum-sucking, arse-licking, clitlicker, more...

Opposite:
nonconformity, independence, rebellion, defiance, dissent

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Similar:
toadyish, sycophantic, fawning, obsequious, insincere, footlicking, bowing and scraping, bum-sucking, arse-licking, clitlicker, more...

Opposite:
nonconformity, independence, rebellion, defiance, dissent



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