underling
uhn der ling
- n an assistant subject to the authority or control of another
- A: Confronted with evidence, Democratic underling backs off over-the-top claims.
- Thus one night last week began Fidel Castro's showpiece trial, first of a planned 1,000 trials in the Havana area, for a captured underling of exiled Dictator Fulgencio Batista.
- One federal agent quoted a Peraino underling as saying of the Deep Throat take: "We've got so much money .