What is "stooge"

Usage examples of "stooge".

The scheme to leave a stooge in your place in the penitentiary has flopped.

I decided that even the rankest of amateur detectives needs a stooge to untie him - go on and laugh at me, if you want to, for even attempting to detect!

A group of very young warriors, under the command of the Three Stooges, were working on what I can only describe as a piece of heavy artillerya big cannon, surrounded by computerlike consoles and several large cranes.

With steel-reinforced doors and bars covering what other few windows there were, the three Wahhabi stooges were obviously a lot more capable of keeping people out of their warehouse than they were of keeping people off their tail while driving.

To Fitz Crosset, Cadbury had expressed the belief that Mahatma Xanadu used stooges to good advantage.

Jude Deveraux L E G E N D imitation of the Three Stooges, ran smack into each other, and Kady laughed until she had tears in her eyes.

He was always surrounded by musicians and stooges and writers and showgirls and down-and-out comics, and everyone else he could gather into his orbit.

We'll use knives and before they even have time to bury you tonight I'm goin' to have your stooges kicked out and replaced with men who'll give us competent leadership instead of blunderin' authoritarianism.

The Three Stooges couldn’t have put on a clumsier act than that pratfall of theirs.

And he'd bring odd assorted boards and whatnot, and impossible bookshelves, all kinds of things, and years later I had further Three Stooges adventures with him going out to his house in Contra Costa (which he owned and rented) and spending impossible-to-believe afternoons when he paid me two dollars an hour for hauling out bucket after bucket of mudslime which he himself was doling out of a flooded cellar by hand, black and mud-covered as Tartarilouak the King of the Mudslimes of Paratioalaouakak Span, with a secret grin of elfish delight on his face.

Jack spun yarns: Charlie Parker trying to buy him off with a high-yellow hooker, how he cracked the Shapiro case: a queer Mickey Cohen stooge pushing amyl nitrite--his customers transvestite strippers at a fruit bar.

Sycophants, stooges, glad-handers, pissanters and general rimbamboos would drop by the Mickster's side, to be rewarded with jokes, a backslap, a handout.

We dont have mobs and crime syndicates and goon squads because we have crooked politicians and their stooges in the City Hall and the legislatures.

We don't have mobs and crime syndicates and goon squads because we have crooked politicians and their stooges in the City Hall and the legislatures.

Meanwhile, we'll have some of our government stooges issue statements ridiculing Blord, or expressing surprise, wondering if perhaps he has not been mentally unsettled, hinting that the seizure of his properties had more justification in it than appeared on the surface, suggesting that behind the rampant piracy is none other than Artur Blord himself.