What is "bootlickers"

Usage examples of "bootlickers".

I raised a formal Question in Council—the second meeting, that is, not the first—but Hobart claimed I was just trying to embarrass him, use it as an excuse for family rivalry, and one of his bootlickers got up and spouted a whole involved line about genetic susceptibility and the inbred genome of Fleet families.

I myself am what the tsar's parasites and bootlickers call a Nigilist, and only in the circus can one express such sentiments without being arrested and imprisoned for it.

In the eyes of his tortured victims, of the beggars in the streets of his kingdom, of the bootlickers at his court, of the foreign tribes and their rulers beyond the borders.

I raised a formal Question in Council—the second meeting, that is, not the first—but Hobart claimed I was just trying to embarrass him, use it as an excuse for family rivalry, and one of his bootlickers got up and spouted a whole involved line about genetic susceptibility and the inbred genome of Fleet families.

Or, perhaps, he was simply the perfect toadie, and like all good bootlickers, he was following the power.

Back on Serendipity Jeshel had said "Revolt" and "The Cause" and "The-rotten-management, with all its bootlickers.