Definition of "mook" [mook]

• Slang An insignificant or contemptible person. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "A minion, or mook, is an opponent designed to be one of those guys that goes down like tenpins in the movies."
• "First mook: "He says it's the Greek word for grace.""
• "It's got giant robots, double-breasted suits, chinese warlords, taoist priests, world domination, some of the coolest "mook"-level henchmen good and evil ever, superpowers, and more sheer AWESOME than anyone can easily compare."