Usually means: Fawning, obsequious character in Dickens.
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  1. uriah heep: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Uriah Heep: Wiktionary
  3. Uriah Heep: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. uriah heep, heep, uriah: Dictionary.com
  5. Uriah Heep (Band), Uriah Heep (band), Uriah Heep: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Heep, Uriah: Encyclopedia

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  1. uriah heep: A Word A Day
  2. Uriah Heep: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. uriah heep: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Uriah heep: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Uriah Heep)

noun:  A fictional character, Uriah Heep, in the 1850 Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield, noted for his cloying humility, obsequiousness, and insincerity, the stereotypical yes man.
noun:  (by extension) Someone like the fictional character Uriah Heep.
verb:  To be a yes man, in the style of Uriah Heep.

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