Definitions for lackeys

lackeys lack·ey

Spelling: [lak-ee]
IPA: /ˈlæk i/

Lackeys is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 204 anagrams from letters in lackeys (aceklsy).

Definitions for lackeys

noun

  1. a servile follower; toady.
  2. a footman or liveried manservant.

verb (used with object)

  1. to attend as a lackey does.

Origin of lackeys

1520-30; Middle French laquais, perhaps Catalan lacayo, alacayo

Examples for lackeys

When Wayne returns, the U.S. government sends its lackey Superman to pound some sense into Batman.

To let the lackey live would be to have the bargelli in the house by morning.

A buck-naked Jamal—don't ask—is dealing with the lackey by beating him in a bathroom.

Most important, his people do not see him as a lackey of the United States.

You talk glibly of ruining—but then you talk to a groom and lackey.

Opposition leaders criticized him for being a Kremlin lackey.

The lackey who was summoned did not know where the lady might be found, nor when she might return to Paris.

She paused, however, and, turning to the lackey who followed at her heels.

A lackey had been discharged for some cause or other, and it was believed he had taken it.

Last term Netanyahu gave the post to his lackey Yuval Steinitz, who was never heard from again.

Word Value for lackeys
Scrable

15

Words with friends

16

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