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Definition of Stooge
1. Verb. Cruise in slow or routine flights.
2. Noun. A person of unquestioning obedience.
3. Verb. Act as the stooge. "His role was to stooge for the popular comedian"
Generic synonyms: Act, Play, Playact, Roleplay
4. Noun. A victim of ridicule or pranks.
Specialized synonyms: April Fool
Generic synonyms: Dupe, Victim
5. Verb. Act as a stooge, in a compliant or subordinate manner. "He stooged for the flamboyant Senator"
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
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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