To be aggressively eager for the chance to submit to—and be rewarded by—authoritarian power; a mashup of restless impatience (“champing at the bit”) with enthusiastic boot-licking for strongmen, enforcers, or coercive institutions.
Those ICE Agents are champing at the boot to harm Americans.
That senator is champing at the boot to ignore the Constitution.
That senator is champing at the boot to ignore the Constitution.
by youwillnotbreakme January 14, 2026
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