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stooge
noun- a performer whose role in an entertainment is as the butt of a leading character’s jokes, or straight man or feed US, 1913
- [T]he butt of a comic turn is a “stooge”[.] — Butch Reynolds, Broken Hearted Clown, p. 32, 1953
- The late Monsewer Eddie Gray, in drag as a gypsy clairvoyant, used to invite questions from the audience ... more accurately, planted Moulin Rouges–stooges[.] — Red Daniells, 1980
- a person in a subservient position UK, 1937
- The corporate stooges who nobble serious science[.] — The Guardian, 24 February 2004
- a petty criminal who confesses falsely to a crime committed by a more powerful villain and takes the rap for him UK
- — The Official Encyclopaedia of New Scotland Yard, 1999
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