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Verb: cotton up
  1. Ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behaviour
    "She is cottoning up to the chairman"
    - cozy up, shine up, play up, sidle up, suck up

Derived forms: cottoning up, cottoned up, cottons up

Type of: ingratiate

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