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Definition of Bootlicked
1. bootlick [v] - See also: bootlick
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bootlicked
Literary usage of Bootlicked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. For France by Charles Hanson Towne, Booth Tarkington, Theodore Roosevelt, George Ade, Boardman Robinson, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, Hamlin Garland (1917)
"They are flattered and bootlicked so much and told so often that they are noble
self-sacrificing "examples to society" that they really think there's ..."
2. The Spinster: A Novel Wherein a Nineteenth Century Girl Finds Her Place in by Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn, Henry Holt and Company (1916)
"She not only had a boy, but a big, stalwart, self-sufficient fellow, who neither
ground at his books nor " bootlicked the profs." The only thing was, ..."
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