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

Derived forms: shining up, shines up, shone up

Type of: ingratiate

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