Definition of "flunky" []

• A person of slavish or unquestioning obedience; a lackey. (noun)
• One who does menial or trivial work; a drudge. (noun)
• A liveried manservant. (noun)

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• "Thackeray's studies of the flunky are capital; but he studies him _qua flunky_, as a naturalist might study an animal, and hardly ranks him _sub specie humanitatis_."
• "An offshoot of a failed GOP flunky from the last elections."
• "New York record-label flunky Garrett (Long) manages to score with Erin (Barrymore), a Stanford journalism grad student in the final weeks of her summer internship at something called "the New York Sentinel.""