Definition of "apple-polisher" []

• A person who apple-polishes (noun)

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• "“Sure,” I said after a few moments, “if you're really serious about becoming an obsequious, brown-nosing, apple-polisher like me.”"
• "So, is Gates a closet ideologue who shares his real views only with like-minded individuals like Casey or is he a skilled apple-polisher who curries favor with those above him by leaving them little presents like the Nicaragua-bombing memo for Casey?"
• "He also found the shifty little apple-polisher who passed as a captain in the New Model Army."