Definition of Stooges

1. Noun. (plural of stooge) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stooges

1. stooge [v] - See also: stooge

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stooges

stony broke
stony coral
stonyhearted
stonying
stood
stood down
stood for
stood in
stood on ceremony
stood out
stood up
stood up to
stooden
stooge
stooged
stooges (current term)
stooging
stook
stooked
stooker
stookers
stookie
stookies
stooking
stooks
stool-ball
stool pigeon
stool pigeons
stool softener

Literary usage of Stooges

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Culture of Violence by Kumar Rupesinghe (1994)
"Some of the people executed were not merely identified as government stooges or as behaving in defiance of JVP authority. They were also presented as ..."

2. Lenin's Legacy: The Story of the Cpsu by Robert G. Wesson (1978)
"Gandhi, Nasser, and other anticolonial leaders, who in Stalin's eyes had been stooges of imperialism, now became heroic fighters for independence or ..."

3. Opposition and Dissent in Contemporary China by Peter R. Moody (1977)
"During the Cultural Revolution Lin's stooges would tell how Lin had creatively applied Mao's Thought to the concrete conditions.213 But the Thought itself ..."

4. The Marshall Plan Summer: An Eyewitness Report on Europe and the Russians in by Thomas Andrew Bailey (1977)
"... blackmail: they could threaten to turn German ex-soldiers over to the Americans if the individuals in question did not become pliant Communist stooges. ..."

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