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What is the noun for stooge?

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stooge
  1. One who knowingly allows himself or herself to be used for another's profit; a dupe.
  2. (comedy) A straight man.
  3. A secret informant for police.
  4. (psychology) A confederate; a person who is secretly working for the researcher, unknown to the study participant.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “I believe strongly that he was a stooge of the then-chairman of the department of pediatrics.”
      “To what extent Tonge was complicit in fabricating the evidence rather than being merely a gullible stooge is unknown.”
      “Pokrass, who once wrote an opera based on Cyrano de Bergerac, had been a stage stooge for comedian Jack Pepper.”
stooges
  1. plural of stooge
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The Bush stooges and their lackeys in the media know that they are hanging by a tenuous thread that is unraveling ever faster and faster.”
      “Debate was kept to a minimum and opponents of the leaders' strategy were ridiculed or heckled by their stooges in the audience.”
      “Nor does sympathy for what Americans are going through make us capitalist lackeys, stooges of Bush and Blair, or enemies of the Arab world.”
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