Definition of "bootlicked" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of bootlick. (verb)

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• "Were he to complain, which he rarely ever does, he would in all probability say, that his non-promotion has been due to independence of spirit, or, shaping it in his own phraseology, owing to his not having "bootlicked the swabs above him.""