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yes-man
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ˈyɛsˌmæn
/
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noun,
plural
yes-men.
a person who, regardless of actual attitude, always expresses agreement with his or her supervisor, superior, etc.; sycophant.
Origin:
1910–15
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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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yes-man
noun
a person of unquestioning obedience [syn:
flunky
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