0 a person who praises and tries to please people in authority, usually in order to get some advantage from them:
He is a lickspittle who fawns before his aristocratic employers.
He has to say things like that occasionally so his fans don't take him for an establishment lickspittle.
The editor was denounced as a corporate lickspittle by much of the journalistic world.
These lawyers are government hacks and lickspittles, who demonstrate their loyalty to their governments by defending the unconscionable.
They surround themselves with hired flatterers and lickspittles.
