stooge (n.)
- act
- actor
- actress
- adherent
- agent
- also-ran
- antagonist
- appendage
- appliance
- attendant
- babe
- backscratcher
- backslapper
- barnstormer
- boob
- booby
- bootlicker
- brownie
- buff
- character
- chump
- cinch
- clawback
- contrivance
- courtier
- creature
- cull
- dependent
- device
- disciple
- duck
- dummy
- dupe
- emote
- fan
- fawner
- feeder
- feudatory
- figurehead
- fish
- flatterer
- flunky
- foil
- follower
- following
- fool
- front
- gillie
- go-between
- goon
- greenhorn
- groveler
- gudgeon
- gull
- handmaid
- handmaiden
- hanger-on
- heavy
- helot
- henchman
- histrion
- implement
- inferior
- ingenue
- innocent
- instrument
- intermediary
- intermediate
- intermedium
- jackal
- juvenile
- lackey
- lever
- liege
- loser
- man
- mechanism
- mediator
- medium
- midwife
- mime
- mimer
- mimic
- minion
- monkey
- monologist
- mummer
- myrmidon
- organ
- pantomime
- pantomimist
- parasite
- partisan
- patsy
- patter
- pawn
- peon
- pigeon
- play
- playactor
- player
- plaything
- public
- puppet
- pursuer
- pushover
- reciter
- register
- retainer
- sap
- saphead
- satellite
- schlemiel
- sectary
- serf
- servant
- shadow
- sketch
- slave
- soubrette
- spaniel
- sport
- star
- stroller
- subordinate
- successor
- suck
- sucker
- supporter
- sycophant
- tail
- theatrical
- thespian
- thug
- timeserver
- toad
- toady
- tool
- toy
- trainbearer
- troupe
- trouper
- truckler
- underdog
- underling
- upstage
- vassal
- vehicle
- victim
- villain
- votary
- yeoman
- yes-man
stooge (v.)
- act
- actor
- appear
- barnstorm
- boob
- bootlick
- brown-nose
- buff
- character
- cinch
- cull
- duck
- dummy
- dupe
- emote
- fan
- fish
- foil
- fool
- front
- goon
- gull
- implement
- instrument
- intermediate
- lever
- man
- mime
- mimic
- monkey
- pantomime
- patter
- pawn
- perform
- play
- playact
- register
- sap
- satellite
- shadow
- sketch
- slave
- sport
- star
- subordinate
- suck
- tail
- toady
- tool
- toy
- upstage