Synonyms for kiss up
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Verb
1. Kiss ass — to pay false flattery to another, particularly a superior at work, in order to get special attention
suck up, butter up informal, brown-nose, apple-polish US, fawn over, fawn, toady, kiss ass vulgar informal US, kiss arse UK, fellate vulgar, dickride vulgar, bootlick rare
Other
kissy up informal rare
Definitions
- v. 1
To pay false flattery to another, particularly a superior at work, in order to get special attention.
Yes, I watched Joe kissing up the boss and was very annoyed when he got my promotion!
Related words
- Phrases
- kiss up to
- Other spellings
- kiss-up
Example sentences
- fawn Gleam is a tan colored fawn owned by Rapunzel.
By length
- 4 letters
- fawn1
- 5 letters
- toady
- 7 letters
- fellate
- 8 letters
- dickride, bootlick