🇬🇧🇪🇸 stooge - lacayo : English Lesson

Meaning of "stooge" ("lacayo"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A stooge is a person who lets someone more powerful boss them around and use them, usually to do sneaky, embarrassing, or unpleasant jobs. The stooge doesn’t really decide what to do; they just follow orders, even when the job is silly or unfair, like taking the blame, spying, or doing all the bad chores while the other person stays safe and looks innocent.

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The pirate captain ordered his stooges to mop the deck while he sat in a hammock eating pineapples.

The mischievous ghost used me as a stooge, making me open the creaky door first to “check for monsters.”

In our detective game, my sister made me her stooge and sent me crawling under the bed for clues and dust bunnies.

My friend used his little brother as a stooge to test if the spinach smoothie was safe for human beings.

In old comedy shows, stooges were the ones getting pies in their faces.

Tom held the cake box. Friends whispered 'stooge' as the mayor called him 'my stooge'. Tom opened the door, let the mayor slip away with the stolen folder. Tom felt a stooge, hands shaking, eyes wet. A child tapped his arm and said, 'Stop being a stooge.' Tom dropped the box, ran after truth, no longer a stooge.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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