sucked up
Curried favor servilely
Sucked up is the past tense of suck up, meaning to curry favor through excessive flattery or obsequious behavior: He sucked up to the boss all year and still didn't get promoted.
The phrase suggests desperate, undignified ingratiation.
Someone who does this habitually is a suck-up.
- ingestedTook into body
- inhaledDrew into lungs
- vacuumed upCleaned via suction device
- bootlickedObsequiously curried favor
- kissed upIngratiated oneself servilely
absorb · drawn in · curry favor · toadied · brown nosing · engulfed · groveled · ass kissing · consumed · swallowed · ass-kisser · brown-noser · butter up · enveloped · imbibed · ingratiate · flattered · integrated
- fawnedgroveled, kowtowed, toadied, flattered, curried favor
attitude toward authority
sucked uprebelled
Resisted those in charge
defied · stood up to · talked back · pushed back · challenged
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