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Definition of Bootlicks
1. bootlick [v] - See also: bootlick
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bootlicks
Literary usage of Bootlicks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"... about reading or studies from one who if he made a friendly call on a student
would be suspected to be a spy, and the familiar terms—bootlicks, blues, ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1902)
"... meted out to those who call upon an instructor socially, seek information
about reading or studies ; and the familiar terms, bootlicks, blues, curriers, ..."
3. The Writings of Cassius Marcellus Clay: Including Speeches and Addresses by Cassius Marcellus Clay (1848)
"... and its Northern bootlicks 1 Is this not a free country ? Is it not the land
of the rights of man ? Is not this the home of the oppressed ? ..."
4. A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall (1856)
"They are bootlicks, and that is known as Bootlicking ; a reproach, I am sorry to
say, too indiscriminately applied." At Yale, and other colleges, ..."
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