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Obedient follower
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henchman
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Henchman referred originally to one who attended a horse for his employer, that is, a horse groom . Hence, like constable and marshal , also originally stable staff, henchman became the title of a subordinate official in a royal court or noble household. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Bradley is shot at by the warden and his guards, as well as by the killer and his henchmen. ▪ Franco and his henchmen had undoubtedly allowed the monarchists to stand in the hope that they would be discredited by defeat. ▪ Sinatra ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who assists in a plot [syn: confederate , collaborator , partner in crime ]
Usage examples of henchman.
And the beauty of it is that Cassan insists that all of his closest henchmen wear them at all times, to keep magi from picking their brains, so now I can keep track of all of them without even needing my gramerhain.
Two rowdies - former henchmen of Butch Drongo - were still at their appointed posts.
He spoke to his false henchman, Foy, and his words were filled with sinister significance.
WIMBLEDON and his henchmen, Gleek and Harlton, had agreed that other faults would pass unnoticed until after delivery.
It was then I understood that these men were the henchmen of Preacher Nusret Hoja of Erzurum.
There was no way Hsiao and his henchmen were going to let them walk away free, not now.
In the center of the whole group were Obmi and his henchman Keak, well protected by tough humanoids and their powers, of course.
Wherever he went, Kesk liked to stride arrogantly, his head bare and sneering tanarukk face on display, his battle-axe in his hand, and several of his henchmen swaggering along behind him.
You are a child of a nation that has bowed beneath the indistinguishable tyrannies of czars, of Party apparatchiks, of elected kleptocrats and their Mafya henchmen.
Pig was on watch when it came over and admitted to his henchman Knoop that it showed a certain flair.
That is why I called in the services of Konk Zitz and paid him to keep his henchmen in Latuna.
Then Koy Dow and his Chinese henchmen had taken up the battle, that The Shadow might depart.
His hurling motion terminated with a sweep that brought him face to face with Koy Shan and his henchmen.
Since Lenger was to remain at large, an unsuspecting dupe, your henchmen could not spring the trap on Grell.
Marty Lunk and his henchmen were soon to learn the power of that black scourge that wiped out skulking fiends of crime!