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Stooge meaning
One who knowingly allows himself or herself to be used for another's profit; a dupe. | A magician's assistant who pretends to be a member of the audience. | A straight man.
Example sentences (20)
But we need to buck up and elect another neoliberal corporate stooge who's marginally better than the current neoliberal corporate stooge.
In addition, the DVD market in particular has allowed fans to view the entire Stooge film corpus as distinct periods in their long, distinguished career instead of comparing one Stooge to the other (the Curly vs. Shemp debate continues to this day ).
Achonu said that God had kept him alive to be the next governor of Imo in the forthcoming election, saying that he would never be a stooge or placeholder for any politician.
Build out your primary hero's, the JL and then expand, like Huntress, Green arrow, captain atom, Black Canary, star girl, Zatanna, hackman, they have tons of better characters and they choose a stooge.
Here’s a less charitable translation: Biden’s a Russian stooge!
LA says those are solid chants for GUNTHER’s stooge but he’s gonna beat him and make everybody pledge allegiance to the champ of the United States of America.
The President and Zamba have ordered transfers of key investigators in Sattars K150 billion case and their stooge and implementor Deputy Director Hillary Chilomba has openly said the investigations have stopped.
They just wanted to maintain control by using energy supplies as a weapon and backing stooge politicians through illegal means.
Thus one knows the law even less that Trumps stooge.
A stooge is a weak or unimportant person, who is compromisingly controlled by a powerful person or organisation.
In the last six years the government has stoked so much antagonism in India that now every institution in the country today behaves like the government’s stooge.
Joe Biden, long a stooge of corporate America, for example, is frantically attempting to paint himself as a champion of poor people of color after his defeats in the largely white states of Iowa and New Hampshire.
Such is the profile of the man Nnamdi Kanu has condemned as a stooge in the hands of Fulani oligarch and now wants him dead.
Why is the TN government acting as a stooge to the BJP-led government?
Aisyah will now been allowed to return to her family in Indonesia, but it is not clear whether the government will be providing security for her in case North Korea attempts to take revenge on its stooge assassin.
He also described the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senatorial candidate for Kano Central, Sani Aliyu Madakin Gini, as Kwankwaso’s political stooge who cannot make any impact in the election.
He was variously described as a “Russian stooge,” a “KGB cutout” or an intelligence handler.
How do you expect Fayose’s stooge who is not even conversant with politics to win at the polls not to talk of the Supreme Court?
It is chiefs like Mukuni that alienates more and more votes from the chief’s stooge.
The above statement never suggested being stooge of the executive.