stooge

As Hofsø looks on, the stooge throws a butterfly net over the unsuspecting Støre.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2024

So, what’s a stooge like me to do?

From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2024

Then as now, I am for the stooge, the one with the energy, the cockeyed view of the world, the nut.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2023

Then again, Myn has a reason for stonewalling Hera – he's an Imperial stooge wearing the cloak of a businessman.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2023

None of us would have expected it from Padre Gabriel, who was, we thought, a stooge substitute sent in after Padre de Jesus was arrested.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

Take, for instance, the three stooges of “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

The militias were on the defensive for the first time in years, with some demonstrators deriding them as Iranian stooges.

From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2020

The press stooges gasp over his use of social media for shameless self-promotion.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 31, 2017

He spent a year as "Mr Rodney", who was one of a series of stooges for the puppet, Basil Brush, before creating and starring in the ITV sitcom Dear Mother...

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2017

Standing at the pulpit, he gave the signal to a few of his stooges to bring in ten big cardboard posters which listed in alphabetical order every student in school.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

Back in the U.S., he stooged for other entertainers, even held fans for Sally Rand.

From Time Magazine Archive

Anything else is just "stooging," which is flyers' slang for pooping around.

From Time Magazine Archive

Georgia drifted into a period of stooging for most of the top funny men: Hope, Durante, Frank Morgan, Milton Berle, Danny Kaye.

From Time Magazine Archive