One who knowingly allows himself or herself to be used for another's profit; a dupe.
Used in a Sentence
stooges
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for stooges.
Editorial note
The stooges on the deciding committee will decide as stooges do.
Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
One who knowingly allows himself or herself to be used for another's profit; a dupe.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of stooges gathered in one view.
A secret informant for police.
(magic) A magician's assistant who pretends to be a member of the audience.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for stooges.
noun
One who knowingly allows himself or herself to be used for another's profit; a dupe.
noun
A secret informant for police.
noun
(magic) A magician's assistant who pretends to be a member of the audience.
noun
(comedy) A straight man.
Example sentences
The stooges on the deciding committee will decide as stooges do.
The Independent Police Review Authority is full of union stooges, ex-cops, etc and is designed to protect cops.
They certainly can't while he is in power paying off his cronies and supporting brainless stooges in Ukraine.
So pot is good for something - keeping people from being lifelong stooges of the FBI.
In other words, companies want stooges so that they can still keep running without addressing the ridiculous technical debt that they have accrued.
I sometimes wonder if autocratic regimes are so image focused that they've seeded popular forums with stooges.
The great thing about them, though, is their brightly-coloured products stand out so well, it's easy to spot all the stooges in the room.
The last major move in politics was PUP getting seats in parliament for the 3(?) dumbest stooges I've ever seen.
I figured there was some kind of temporal timey whimey thing going on because the three stooges pre-date red Lamborghinis.
America and its stooges turned these north African countries into anarchy zones and now Europe is paying the price of taking care of the refugees.
But you're not accomplishing anything except signaling to people that if they think too hard about certain points of view, then they're just being stooges.
That's why I love up-close magic tricks and loathe magician TV shows full of cut shots and stooges in the audience.
Quote examples
This one, because while it has some really sharp people, it also has a lot of corporate stooges who buy into the "disruption" hype of the Bay Area and who have a complete lack of self-awareness.
The possibility of Kaspersky being a "stooge" for Putin is much less than the possibility of Symantec, Norton et all being stooges for US Government (well its a certainty actually) + all the arms of the octopus.
The mock religion "Church of the Subgenius" have redone the hare krishna chant to use the Three Stooges: Larry Curly Larry Curly Curly Curly Larry Larry Larry Moe Larry Moe Moe Moe Larry Larry Meditative chanting like that (which, for clarity, I do at home, not in somebody else's temple) is a really interesting experience.
Proper noun examples
Yeah but even then, you have The Three Stooges, The Marx Brothers, and Charlie Chaplin.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use stooges in a sentence?
The stooges on the deciding committee will decide as stooges do.
What does stooges mean?
One who knowingly allows himself or herself to be used for another's profit; a dupe.
What part of speech is stooges?
stooges is commonly used as noun.