| Main Entry: | stooge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dupe |
Synonyms: |
chump, easy mark, fall guy, flunky, fool, lackey, patsy, pawn, pigeon, puppet, pushover, sap*, sucker, victim |
| Main Entry: | act |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | entertain by playing a role |
Synonyms: |
be on, bring down the house, burlesque, characterize, do a turn, dramatize, emote, enact, feign, go on, go over, ham it up, ham, impersonate, lay an egg, make debut, mime, mimic, mug, parody, perform, personate, personify, play, play act, play gig, play part, play role, portray, pretend, put it over, rehearse, represent, say one's piece, simulate, star, stooge, strut*, take part, tread the boards |
| Notes: | an act is the main dramatic unit and a scene is a division within an act |
| Main Entry: | actor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who performs, entertains by role-playing |
Synonyms: |
amateur, artist, barnstormer, bit player, character, clown, comedian, entertainer, extra, foil, ham, hambone, headliner, idol, impersonator, ingénue, lead, mime, mimic, pantomimist, performer, play-actor, player, soubrette, stand-in, star, stooge, straight person, thesp, thespian, trouper, understudy, ventriloquist, villain, walk-on |
Antonyms: |
audience, fan |
| Main Entry: | comedian |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | funny person, often professional |
Synonyms: |
actor, banana, card*, clown, comic, cutup, droll, entertainer, farceur, humorist, jester, joker, jokester, laugh, merry-andrew, million laughs, quipster, stand-up comic, stooge, top banana, wag, wisecracker, wit*, zany* |
| Main Entry: | comic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | funny person, often professional |
Synonyms: |
banana, buffoon*, card*, clown, comedian, droll, funnyman, humorist, jester, joker, jokester, life of the party, million laughs, quipster, stand-up comic, stooge, top banana, wag, wit* |
Antonyms: |
tragedian |
| Main Entry: | fall guy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | easy victim |
Synonyms: |
boob, can-carrier, chopping block, chump, dupe, easy mark, easy touch, fool, goat, lamb to the slaughter, mark, patsy, pigeon, prize sap, sacrifice, sap, scapegoat, schlemiel, schmuck, sitting duck, soft touch, stooge, sucker, trusting soul, victim, whipping boy |
| Main Entry: | follower |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who believes or has great interest |
Synonyms: |
addict, adherent, admirer, advocate, apostle, attendant, backer, believer, bootlicker, buff, client, cohort, companion, convert, copycat, devotee, disciple, fan, fancier, freak*, habitué, hanger-on, helper, imitator, lackey, member, minion, parasite, participant, partisan, patron, promoter, proselyte, protégé, pupil, representative, satellite, sectary, servant, sidekick, stooge, supporter, sycophant, toady, vassal, votary, worshiper, zealot |
Antonyms: |
leader |
| Main Entry: | fool |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stupid or ridiculous person |
Synonyms: |
ass, birdbrain, blockhead, bonehead, boob*, bore, buffoon, clod, clown, cretin*, dimwit, dolt*, dope*, dumb ox, dunce, dunderhead, easy mark, fair game, fathead, goose, halfwit, idiot, ignoramus, illiterate, imbecile, innocent, jerk*, lamebrain, lightweight, loon, moron, nerd*, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, numskull, oaf, sap*, schlemiel, silly, simpleton, stooge, sucker, turkey, twerp, twit, victim |
Antonyms: |
brain |
| Main Entry: | henchman |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | follower |
Synonyms: |
abettor, accessory, accomplice, adherent, adjunct, aide, ally, appointee, apprentice, assistant, attendant, backer, backup*, bodyguard, coadjutant, coadjutor, cohort, collaborator, colleague, companion, deputy, fellow worker, flunky, friend, gal Friday, girl Friday, gofer, hanger-on, hatchet man/woman, help, helper, helpmate, lackey, man Friday, partner, right-hand man/woman, right-hand person, secretary, servant, sidekick*, stooge, subordinate, supporter, yes-person |
| Main Entry: | joker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who kids, teases |
Synonyms: |
actor, banana, buffoon, card*, clown, comedian, comic, cutup, droll, farceur, fool, funster, gagster, humorist, jester, jokesmith, jokester, josher, kidder, life of the party, prankster, punster, quipster, second banana, stand-up comic, stooge, straight person, top banana, trickster, wag, wisecracker, wit |