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• n  a person of unquestioning obedience
• n  a victim of ridicule or pranks
• v  cruise in slow or routine flights
• v  act as the stooge
  His role was to stooge for the popular comedian
• v  act as a stooge, in a compliant or subordinate manner
  He stooged for the flamboyant Senator

• The clash earned Wallace a reputation among his detractors as a "Stalinist stooge.
• The outside world viewed him as Beijing's stooge.
• Somoza, on the other hand, found that Leonardo Argello, the stooge he had got elected, did not intend to be a stooge.

• flunky
• flunkey
• yes-man
• butt
• goat
• laughingstock

News & Articles

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• Obama Axes Bank-Harrassing Gary Gensler at CFTC, Plans to Install Lightweight Ex-Goldmanite
  Obama is no longer bothering to pretend that he is anything other than a stooge for banks and other big money interests.
  June 12, 2013 - Naked Capitalism

Quotes

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• John Howard in The Age
  The facts are that you now have two journalists both of whom, I say, enjoy a good reputation and neither could be described as a Liberal Party or a government stooge - neither of them,Mr Howard told ABC TV today. "They're both as straight...
• Panfilo Lacson in Inquirer.net
  That's exactly the reason I left the country. I am a victim of a conspiracy of whispers between Ms Arroyo and her stooge in the DoJ,Lacson added.
• Peer Steinbrueck in Reuters
  I am getting threatening letters from Switzerland and am being bad-mouthed as a Nazi stooge,Steinbrueck told the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung on Thursday.