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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
bootlick .
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Examples
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One who is the most powerful person on earth — at least that peculiar portion of earth, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, formerly the Russian Empire — with his armies of spies, eavesdroppers, bootlicks from whose million-eyed gaze nothing escapes deadly scrutiny.
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Some one of you, if you were not all lazy craven bootlicks of the rich, should illustrate to the wildly already rich that their wealth is only valued in an orderly medium of exchange backed by a government responsible to the source of all wealth, labor.
Stephen Herrington: The Unemployed Are Not Lazy, Republicans Are 2010
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We, in our hundreds, will demand that the WVDEP finally fulfill its obligation as servants of the public instead of taking their usual place as bootlicks to the companies that are quickly making West Virginia an unfit place to live.
Jeff Biggers: Coal River Mountain Comes to Town: Copenhagen Summit Video to Charleston Rally 2009
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In one fell swoop, McCrory bootlicks the hateful sentiments of extremists and loses a new and powerful voting bloc: New Americans.
Angela Kelley: NC Candidate for Governor Trashes Immigrant Voting Bloc 2008
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Apparently, the bootlicks at the Supreme Court agree.
Think Progress » Supreme Court rules against gov’t whistleblowers. 2006
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But sprinkle some money in front of them, these fierce, independent minded bloggers become bootlicks for the establishment.
When a blogger goes to work for a candidate, she's bound to become boring. Ann Althouse 2007
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The Neocons and their Neo-Tory bootlicks possess an unwavering commitment to domination that will enable them to lead the American Empire (unfettered by weaknesses like compassion and empathy) to its true destiny: global hegemony.
Check Your Conscience at the Door: We're Building an Empire 2006
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I'd rather my babes were born in a cane-brake and reared on bark and wild berries, with the blood of independence burning in their veins, than spawned in a palace and brought up bootlicks and policy players.
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So what is it about Louisianans make them so much more socialist than Arizonans …? oh-come-on, fuzz, you debased old miscreant. you couldn't form a civil response to anything to save your sold-out life. toadies and bootlicks look down on you, and feel better about themselves.
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After months of some of the most ham-handed diplomatic blundering in history, Team O (which would include MSM bootlicks and sycophants) badly needed something they could spin as a win.
Cold Fury 2009
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