Usually means: Subordinate used for menial tasks.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word LACKEY:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. lackey: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lackey: Merriam-Webster
  3. lackey: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lackey: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lackey: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lackey: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lackey, lackey: Wordnik
  8. lackey: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Lackey, lackey: Wiktionary
  10. lackey: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lackey: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lackey: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Lackey, lackey: Dictionary.com
  14. lackey: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Lackey (disambiguation), Lackey (manservant), Lackey (surname), Lackey: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Lackey: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lackey: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lackey: Rhymezone
  19. lackey: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. lackey: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. lackey: FreeDictionary.org
  22. lackey: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. lackey: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lackey: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lackey: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See lackeyed as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Lackey)

▸ noun:  A footman, a liveried male servant.
▸ noun:  A fawning, servile follower.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To attend, wait upon, serve obsequiously.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To toady, play the flunky.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:
flunky, flunkey, toady, sycophant, crawler, lacky, lacquey, lackeyship, flunkie, footboy, more...

Opposite:
leader, boss, chief, commander

Types:
toady, flunkey, sycophant, stooge, parasite, sponger, leech, more...

Phrases:
lackey moth, lackey caterpillar, lackey moths, Mercedes Lackey, Mercedes Lackey bibliography, more...

Adjectives:
old, little, mere, imperialist, faithful, liveried, former, saucy, american, capitalist, french


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Similar:
flunky, flunkey, toady, sycophant, crawler, lacky, lacquey, lackeyship, flunkie, footboy, more...

Opposite:
leader, boss, chief, commander

Types:
toady, flunkey, sycophant, stooge, parasite, sponger, leech, more...

Phrases:
lackey moth, lackey caterpillar, lackey moths, Mercedes Lackey, Mercedes Lackey bibliography, John Lackey, Portrait of a Lackey on Fire, more...

Adjectives:
old, little, mere, imperialist, faithful, liveried, former, saucy, american, capitalist, french



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