cookie pusher

cookie pusher
   a male employee who curries favour with his boss
   From the act of handing round the cakes or biscuits at a function largely attended by women:
    ... do you see that furry-headed little cookie-pusher Brittan is having the fountains in Trafalgar Square drained for New Year's Eve? {Private Eye, December 1983 — Brittan was the British Home Secretary) Also used generally of male homosexuals and owing nothing to the obsolete cookie, cocaine.

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