"kiss up" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-kiss up.ogg [Australia] Forms: kisses up [present, singular, third-person], kissing up [participle, present], kissed up [participle, past], kissed up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} kiss up (third-person singular simple present kisses up, present participle kissing up, simple past and past participle kissed up)
  1. (transitive, idiomatic) To pay false flattery to another, particularly a superior at work, in order to get special attention. Tags: idiomatic, transitive
    Sense id: en-kiss_up-en-verb-kRFkvj-R Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 93 7 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 82 18
  2. (intransitive, idiomatic) To pay false flattery. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive
    Sense id: en-kiss_up-en-verb-BCk7VqTB
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: kiss-up Derived forms: kiss up to Related terms: kiss up, kick down

Inflected forms

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