Definition of Stooge

1. Noun. A person of unquestioning obedience.

Exact synonyms: Flunkey, Flunky, Yes-man
Generic synonyms: Follower
Specialized synonyms: Pushover

2. Verb. Cruise in slow or routine flights.
Category relationships: Air, Air Travel, Aviation
Generic synonyms: Cruise

3. Noun. A victim of ridicule or pranks.
Exact synonyms: Butt, Goat, Laughingstock
Specialized synonyms: April Fool
Generic synonyms: Dupe, Victim

4. Verb. Act as the stooge. "His role was to stooge for the popular comedian"
Category relationships: Dramatic Art, Dramatics, Dramaturgy, Theater, Theatre
Generic synonyms: Act, Play, Playact, Roleplay

5. Verb. Act as a stooge, in a compliant or subordinate manner. "He stooged for the flamboyant Senator"
Generic synonyms: Act, Behave, Do

Definition of Stooge

1. Noun. One who knowingly allows himself or herself to be used for another's profit; a dupe. ¹

2. Noun. (context: comedy) A straight man ¹

3. Noun. A person who secretly collects information on activities of the enemy ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stooge

1. to act as a comedian's straight man [v STOOGED, STOOGING, STOOGES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stooge

stony-broke
stony-faced
stony broke
stony coral
stonyhearted
stonying
stood
stood down
stood for
stood in
stood on ceremony
stood out
stood up
stood up to
stooden
stooge (current term)
stooged
stooges
stooging
stook
stooked
stooker
stookers
stookie
stookies
stooking
stooks
stool-ball
stool pigeon

Literary usage of Stooge

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"The' straight' comedian ^ TV« their admonishes his London stooge, apro- ki^.iv** Une, pos of nothing, that 'indeed a rolling -vt; ..."

2. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"6107 is a swage for bending nozzles of milk-cans, etc. Fig. 6106. stooge. Swage-block. A large perforated block of iron, having grooved sides and adapted ..."

3. The Best Plays by Burns Mantle, Louis Kronenberger (1899)
"Joey Smithers used to dress up as an old lady and act as a stooge for Gabby Martin the time they were running a patent medicine pitch at the carnivals. ..."

4. United Nations System, The; The Policies of Member States by Chadwick F. Alger, Gene Martin Lyons, John E. Trent (1995)
"... Abel Muzorewa (then regarded as a Western stooge and a traitor to the African cause), and, at some point, even Ian Smith to find a solution for ..."

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