stooges

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  1. noun The partner in a comedy team who feeds lines to the other comedian; a straight man.
  2. noun One who allows oneself to be used for another's profit or advantage; a puppet.
  3. noun Slang A stool pigeon.

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  • The coalition of stooges were the three biggest ideologues (and egos) in this country. —  CTV News RSS Feed
  • Iggy pop and the stooges are a perfect example of why music is awesome. —  Drudge Retort
  • Hell, when you get right down to it, Beef Bonk and his stooges aren't all that different either. —  Branded in the 80s!
  • By the way, that ABC television debate last year in which you caned Bob Carter and the La Rouchian audience stooges was a hoot. —  RealClimate
  • It was only ever a figment of the fevered imaginations of the brain-dead Nu-Lab trolls and stooges, there never was a more dead, dead-cat bounce than McBust's. —  Telegraph Blogs
 

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