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