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arse-licker

arse-licker is the alternative form of ass-licker.

Meaning of ass-licker

Noun

ass-licker (plural ass-lickers)

  1. (US, literally, slang, vulgar) Someone who performs anilingus.
  2. (US, figuratively, slang, vulgar) Someone who succumbs to authority, someone who excessively flatters or submits to authority figures in order to gain favor or secure a reward.
    • If they’re to make anything of themselves, they must instead become ass-lickers, lap dogs and sycophants.2025 August 25, Robert Reich, “Why Trump built a staff of incompetent sycophants”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2025
  3. (US, broadly, figuratively, slang, vulgar) Any contemptible person.

Forms of arse-licker

pluralarse-lickers

Questions about arse-licker

What is arse-licker the alternative form of?
Arse-licker is the alternative form of ass-licker.

Words near arse-licker in the dictionary

  1. arse-fucked
  2. arse-fucking
  3. arse-fucks
  4. arse-kisser
  5. arse-kissers
  6. arse-licker
  7. arse-lickers
  8. arse-licking
  9. arse-up
  10. arse-ups
  11. arse-wash

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Adapted from Wiktionary: arse-licker (page history and authors); ass-licker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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