minion

Definition

  • noun: someone who is not powerful or important and who obeys the orders of a powerful leader or boss
  • noun: a servile dependent, follower, or underling
  • synonyms: minimum, fine, trim

Examples

  • one of the boss's 'minions'

Movie quotes

  • (..) But all's too weak, for brave Macbeth... well he deserves that name... disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel which smoked with bloody execution, like valour's minion carved out his passage till he faced the slave which ne'er shook hands nor bade farewell to him till he unseamed him (..)
    2015 Macbeth