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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 cracks
  2. arse end
  3. arse end of nowhere
  4. arse ends
  5. arse in a sling
  6. arse licker
  7. arse lickers
  8. arse lift
  9. arse like a Japanese flag
  10. arse on
  11. arse over head

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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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