The Collaborative International Dictionary
bootlicking \bootlicking\ adj. attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery.
Syn: fawning, obsequious, sycophantic, toadyish, ass-kissing.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of bootlick English)
WordNet
adj. attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery [syn: fawning, obsequious, sycophantic, toadyish]
Usage examples of "bootlicking".
Saeed and Mehdi were, like himself, Saudi in origin, like himself children of wealthy families who'd come to despise their parents for their habit of bootlicking Americans and others like them.
Even though they were of the same caste, both Professionals, his lawyer insisted on bootlicking.
But no one will ever compute the still-born genius of those who perish under systems of thaf kind, unwilling to learn the art of bootlicking required by any political patron of the arts.