Monday's slang word of the day: butter up

Today's slang word of the day is butter up. Its definitions appear below. Click here to vote on usage and vulgarity, to see words that share the same meaning, and to see words that share the same root words.

butter up

verb - transitive

• to flatter, especially for future gain.

                                                                                            
  
                                                                          
  
                                                                                                        
  
  Citation from "Begin the Begin", Covert Affairs (TV), Season 2 Episode 1 (2011) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.

  • See more words with the same meaning: to take advantage of, cheat, trick.

  Last edited on Jun 10 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 02 2009.

Enjoy!

-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com) from The Online Slang Dictionary

P.S. Sorry about the blacked out citations. Google penalizes the dictionary if I show them. (There's a bunch of information about the penalty here.)