Thesaurus:suck up
English
Verb
Sense: to behave in a servile manner
Synonyms
- apple-polish (US)
- bootlick
- bow and scrape
- brownnose
- butter up
- dickride (vulgar)
- fawn
- fellate (figurative, vulgar)
- flannel
- kiss someone's ass (idiomatic, vulgar)
- kiss someone's ring (idiomatic)
- kiss up
- kowtow (figurative)
- lick someone's ass (idiomatic, vulgar)
- lick someone's balls (idiomatic, vulgar)
- suck up
- toady
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Further reading
- “886. servility” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “suck up” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.