Converse of object

• have: Lots of gags about having a stooge in the audience, but not hugely funny.

• use: So much so that Ian is often accused of using stooges.

• appoint: Aegis shareholders voted today not to allow Mr Bollore, Havas chairman, to appoint two stooges onto Aegis board.

• put: Will the Whips try to strangle independence on the new select committees by putting party stooges in as chairs.

• play: I played the stooge as well as I could.

Adjective modifier

• American: De Gaulle vetoed on the unquestionable grounds that the UK sought entry under US urging, and would be an American stooge in Europe.

• Stalinist: A subversive revolutionary or a Stalinist stooge with a Swiss bank account?

• imperialist: I do not support the work of imperialist stooges.

• Iraqi: Predictably, the right wing in America are now calling Ritter an Iraqi stooge.

• political: He was not really a politician and was quite gentle and honest for a political stooge.

• simple: But they also have criticisms of these countries and cannot be viewed as simple stooges.

Modifies a noun

• regime: Instead, they face occupation by US and British troops and at best, a stooge regime imposed by US imperialism.

Noun used with modifier

• government: No longer were the people prepared to have their destinies decided by the government stooges who were appointed to serve on the council.

• pro-us: Saddam Hussein will undoubtedly be removed but only to be replaced by a pro-US stooge resting on US and British military might.

Possessives

• surcease: Sir Isaac Newton called this sudden termination of motion the stooge's surcease.

Possessives

• Satan: Would he fight or would he knuckle under to Satan's stooges?

Preposition: in

• audience: Lots of gags about having a stooge in the audience, but not hugely funny.

Preposition: with

• account: A subversive revolutionary or a Stalinist stooge with a Swiss bank account?