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Definition of Stooges
1. stooge [v] - See also: stooge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stooges
Literary usage of Stooges
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Culture of Violence by Kumar Rupesinghe (1994)
"Some of the people executed were not merely identified as government stooges or
as behaving in defiance of JVP authority. They were also presented as ..."
2. Lenin's Legacy: The Story of the Cpsu by Robert G. Wesson (1978)
"Gandhi, Nasser, and other anticolonial leaders, who in Stalin's eyes had been
stooges of imperialism, now became heroic fighters for independence or ..."
3. Opposition and Dissent in Contemporary China by Peter R. Moody (1977)
"During the Cultural Revolution Lin's stooges would tell how Lin had creatively
applied Mao's Thought to the concrete conditions.213 But the Thought itself ..."
4. The Marshall Plan Summer: An Eyewitness Report on Europe and the Russians in by Thomas Andrew Bailey (1977)
"... blackmail: they could threaten to turn German ex-soldiers over to the Americans
if the individuals in question did not become pliant Communist stooges. ..."