lapdog
noun [C] (PERSON) /ˈlæp.dɒɡ/
/-dɑːɡ/ disapprovingDefinition
› someone who is willing to do anything that a more important person tells them to do: Opposition parties accuse the newspaper's editor of being a government lapdog.Servants, slaves and underlings
(Definition of lapdog noun (PERSON) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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