suck-up
noun
ˈsək-ˌəp 
: a person who is ingratiating or fawning
a suck-up to the teacher
Synonyms
- apple-polisher
- bootlicker
- brownnoser
- fawner
- flunky
- flunkey
- flunkie
- lickspittle
- sycophant
- toady
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Word History
First Known Use
1970, in the meaning defined above
suck-ups
noun
as in sycophants
a person who flatters another in order to get ahead I'd like to give my boss a birthday present, but I don't want to look like a shameless suck-up Synonyms & Similar Words
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- sycophants
- toadies
- lickspittles
- bootlickers
- minions
- flunkies
- flunkeys
- parasites
- fawners
- henchmen
- fans
- admirers
- sponges
- devotees
- brownnosers
- slaves
- apparatchiks
- lackeys
- pupils
- disciples
- partisans
- leeches
- apparatchiki
- yes-men
- followers
- stooges
- apple-polishers
- spongers
- zealots
- adherents
- hangers-on
- enthusiasts
- lapdogs
- idolators
- cultists
- worshippers
- satellites
- idolaters
- company men
- votaries
- worshipers
- running dogs
- converts
- partizans
- camp followers
- grovelers
- me-tooers
- compresent
- compress
- compressed
- compressed air
- compressed score
- compressed tablet
- compressed yeast
- compressedly
- compresses
- compressibilities
- compressibility
- compressibility burble
- compressibility coefficient
- compressibility effect
- compressible
- compressiblenesses
- compressing
- compressingly
- compression
- compression cup
- compression dressing
- compression failure
- compression faucet
- compression ignition
- compression member