stooge
IPA: stˈudʒ
noun
- One who knowingly allows himself or herself to be used for another's profit; a dupe.
- (magic) A magician's assistant who pretends to be a member of the audience.
- (comedy) A straight man.
- A secret informant for police.
- (psychology) A confederate; a person who is secretly working for the researcher, unknown to the study participant.
verb
- (intransitive) To act as a straight man.
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Examples of "stooge" in Sentences
- The Stooges then leave for the island.
- In the hallway Angel chases the Stooges.
- This is a recurring joke in the Stooge shorts.
- The Stooge lives in the dorm room next to Sani.
- The Stooge are separate characters in this short.
- The Stooges is the self titled debut of the rock band The Stooges.
- It is the American Civil War, and the Stooges enlist in the service.
- Screen shot from the Three Stooges short subject 'Dutiful But Dumb'.
- By the end of the 1930s, Curly was clearly the star of the Three Stooges.
- And of course Obama, the neoliberal Dem corporate stooge, is also pro amnesty.
- Curly is generally considered the most popular and recognizable of the Stooges.
- I agree with some on here, America will return to prosperity when this inexperienced stooge is gone.
- I asked it once if it was really stupid or just a paid stooge from the DC propaganda machine …. to date, no answer … ..
- Mullah Omar also called on Afghans to break off relations with what he calls the stooge government of President Hamid Karzai.
- Mullah Omar also called on Afghans to break off relations with what he called the stooge government of President Hamid Karzai.
- Khan says the way the U.S. can protect itself is to back a credible leadership in Pakistan, which is not perceived to be what he calls a "stooge."
- I keep on hearing rumours that Permatan Pete was once tried for a bank robbery, but got off because he asserted that a ‘lookalike’ stooge from the then South African Bureau of State Security did it instead.
- Let me put it this way: after seeing the first part of the San Bernardino ACORN video - the one where the ACORN stooge is bragging about her husband’s death, the former running of her own brothel, and the way that she knows Senator Barbara Boxer - GayPatriot called up Boxer’s office*.
- Where James proves himself to be a good Republican stooge is that little bit hidden in the above post that acts as if everything were pre-ordained, and ignores the willful acts of sabotage undertaken by Reagan, Bush, Clinton (largely in the form of laws pushed by a Republican Congress), and Bush.
- Obviously it means that the Young and the Restless are undermining the solid foundations of fundamentalism as has been amply shown repeatedly in post and commentary on the blogs of the first two stooges, aided and abetted by the third (now who’s your favorite stooge from the original slapstick original that gave birth to my allusion?
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