Behave obsequiously towards someone in order to gain favour.
a mindless herd of bootlicking sycophants
Example sentencesExamples
Your dogged pursuit of those you don't like is as annoying as your bootlicking of industry people you do like.
Such bootlicking did not move Levin in the least.
People bootlick you, you bootlick them back.
It made me an honest worker, unconcerned about promotions, or about bootlicking my superiors.
Sadly the bootlicking media is not doing anything worthwhile to expose these politicians!
I confess, I'm a sycophant, even if my bootlicking inclines less toward, oh say, administration officials than foul-mouthed and amusing anti-propagandists.
What precedent is there for such servile bootlicking?
This time our own PM has been the aggressor's bootlicking mascot.
Mauser and his sidekick Proctor (Lance Kinsey) are up to their old tricks, looking to cheat and bootlick their way into the committee's good graces.