suck-up

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See also: suckup and suck up

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Deverbal from suck up.

Noun

suck-up (plural suck-ups)

  1. A person who sucks up, or plays up through adulation or flattery or other such devices to win another's favour; a brown-noser.
    • 2005, Helen Oyeyemi, The Icarus Girl, Bloomsbury, page 139:
      Dulcie was already holding Lidiaʼs hand, and she didnʼt even know her! What a suck-up.

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