noun / verb
stooge
STOOJ/stuːdʒ/
A subordinate used to serve another's purposes.
The assistant serves as a stooge, following the performer's humiliating instructions.
Etymology
The word's origin is uncertain, but its early meaning was a stage assistant who helped a comedian. That subordinate role broadened into a person used for someone else's purposes.
In context
when today people say, Savarkar was a British stooge and this and that, that is the very fact, that the British would take care of those who had sold themselves to them.
More examples
- She refuses to be a stooge for the dishonest manager.
- He stooges for the gang's leader, carrying out every order.
- The comedian's stooge becomes the target of every joke.
Forms
stooge · stooges · stooged · stooging