flunky

IPA: fɫˈʌŋki

noun

  • (slang, derogatory) An individual who always agrees with their superior or employer.
  • One performing menial or miscellaneous duties.
  • Alternative form of flunkey [(derogatory) An underling; a liveried servant or a footman; servant, retainer – a person working in the service of another (especially in the household).]
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Examples of "flunky" in Sentences

  • An offshoot of a failed GOP flunky from the last elections.
  • Apparently the "flunky" was actually a fellow House member.
  • How much cash do you have in the bank compared to this man you call a flunky?
  • How much cash do you have in the bank compared to this man you call a flunky? "
  • The book was created during a period in the 1960s when Feinstein was a 20-something "flunky" at a movie studio.
  • The only thing I see is at least once a week there’s some flunky from the Administration giving everybody the full Herbert ….
  • They mow down four hoods to get to the mobster’s main flunky, then they breakout the ol’ can of whoopass on a few more hoods in order to get to the same flunky.
  • Thackeray's studies of the flunky are capital; but he studies him _qua flunky_, as a naturalist might study an animal, and hardly ranks him _sub specie humanitatis_.
  • New York record-label flunky Garrett (Long) manages to score with Erin (Barrymore), a Stanford journalism grad student in the final weeks of her summer internship at something called "the New York Sentinel."

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