Apple polisher

One who attempts to curry favor with authority for personal gain.

Derived from the old tradition of the families of pupils expressing their appreciation for a teacher's thankless work by providing them with meals, which eventually diminished to the symbolic polished apple.

Who're you callin' 'ingenious', you punk-ass apple polisher? Drop and gimme twenty!

Apple polisher by Bootstraps September 17, 2008

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Someone who takes your idea and makes them seem like theirs without giving you credit for the creation of the idea.

At work, watch out for apple polishers.

apple polisher by natebaby January 5, 2008

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apple polisher

a girl who sucks some guys nuts

Michelle is an apple polisher

apple polisher by Justin Hell May 18, 2004

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apple-polisher

A person who apple-polishes (to pamper and flatter in order to get personal advantage)

"My classmate Sarah is a big apple-polisher"

apple-polisher by Wally elsissy September 5, 2006

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A Booger In The Nose Of Progress

Anything that impedes or otherwise interferes with a process going forward.

"Militarily, that inquest was a booger in the nose of progress."

or

"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."

A Booger In The Nose Of Progress by Rok'n'rol Wannabe October 19, 2006

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🤡🫵🏻

How to say "you're an idiot/clown" using only emojis.

Person 1: Insert completely incorrect and/or idiotic statement here
Person 2: 🤡🫵🏻

🤡🫵🏻 by Ubeenbamboozledson May 31, 2026

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fogey

Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!

You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)

fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005

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