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Verb: bow and scrape
  1. Show excessive politeness or servility; be obsequious

Type of: bootlick [informal], fawn, kotow, kowtow, smoodge [Austral, informal], suck up [informal], toady, truckle

Encyclopedia: Bow and scrape

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