lackey
IPA: ɫˈæki
noun
- A footman, a liveried male servant.
- A fawning, servile follower.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To attend, wait upon, serve obsequiously.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To toady, play the flunky.
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Examples of "lackey" in Sentences
- I was once his lackey.
- I was told by a lackey.
- He needs to hire a new lackey.
- The lackey was less fortunate.
- Lackey has to eat his losses in the same way.
- Batman tries to stop the puppet and his lackeys.
- The lackey has to eat his losses in the same way.
- O'Brien gets her nephew, Alfred, hired on as a new lackey.
- A lackey checks the back of the car and is shot in the face.
- So off the wagon he goes - just in time for a lower-rung record-label lackey named
- The average salary for a lackey with this sort of work is around 14,000 per annum.
- Only the hapless Ring lackey is duped and cornered into making some very wrong choices.
- Inwardly as distressed as the Thienz, Scait strode from the hall without pause to call a lackey to replace the rent limb of his throne arm.
- One morning he and his wife were in their coach before the Hotel-Dieu, waiting for a reply that their lackey was a very long time in bringing them.
- I can tell you this, if she thinks that scoring points with some Bush Administration lackey is in the best interest of Aggies, then she is sadly mistaken.
- And to get ready you are willing to link arms now with Senator Bough -- a man you once called the lackey of Wall Street -- a man who has always opposed every democratic principle.
- Libya's state television broadcast on Thursday what it said was a telephone conversation between the U.S. ambassador and the commander in charge of rebel forces in the east, who it described as a "lackey."
- Then his Majesty's friend, Grumbkow, craving the Duke's permission, called the lackey in charge, who produced the King's huge pipe, and in a few minutes the Landhofmeisterin saw the stately banqueting-hall take the aspect and smell of a tabagie.
- Fans of that film will be forgiven for assuming that both Hill and Brand reprise their roles: in fact, Hill plays a thus-far entirely unrelated character named Aaron Green, a record-label lackey enlisted by Diddy's character to keep Russell in line as the pair makes their way to a concert performance.