stooge

[ US /ˈstudʒ/ ]
[ UK /stˈuːd‍ʒ/ ]
VERB
  1. act as the stooge
    His role was to stooge for the popular comedian
  2. act as a stooge, in a compliant or subordinate manner
    He stooged for the flamboyant Senator
  3. cruise in slow or routine flights
NOUN
  1. a victim of ridicule or pranks
  2. a person of unquestioning obedience
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How To Use stooge In A Sentence

  • Mullah Omar also called on Afghans to break off relations with what he called the stooge government of President Hamid Karzai. CNN Transcript Nov 26, 2009
  • I remember when (old fogie rant starts … now) this movie used to air on Sunday mornings/afternoons with the Three Stooges and Godzilla movies. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Clash of The Titans is getting a re-do
  • Unless a lot more people decide to stand as independents, and most of them get voted in in place of the traditional party stooges, there isn't a great deal we, as voters, can do.
  • The newly appointed mayor is widely regarded as a government stooge.
  • This process has now been going on for 10 years, and will probably go on for another 10 years (unless the US succeeds in imposing another corporate stooge). Welsh Nationalisation
  • The cheeky glove puppet fox hosts a variety and sketch show format - a procession of comic stooges play straight man and second fiddle to his antics.
  • Ixnay and amscray were used widely in 'The Three Stooges' shorts, possibly the main source of popularity for the words. Recalibrating the best American fiction
  • These permanently "burrowed" stooges need to be removed. Think Progress
  • This is a way of saying that the Marx Brothers are written characters, while the Stooges are mostly dumbshow and clowning. Lance Mannion:
  • He's not some bloated old Masonic corporate stooge; he's a man of the people - a liberal, even - and he wants everyone to know it.
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