All jackal synonyms

noun jackal

• accessory — Accessories are items of equipment that are not usually essential, but which can be used with or added to something else in order to make it more efficient, useful, or decorative.
• medium — a middle state or condition; mean.
• accomplice — Someone's accomplice is a person who helps them to commit a crime.
• agent — A chemical that has a particular effect or is used for a particular purpose can be referred to as a particular kind of agent.
• auxiliary — An auxiliary is a person who is employed to assist other people in their work. Auxiliaries are often medical workers or members of the armed forces.
• chump — If you call someone who you like a chump, you are telling them that they have done something rather stupid or foolish, or that they are always doing stupid things.
• creature — You can refer to any living thing that is not a plant as a creature, especially when it is of an unknown or unfamiliar kind. People also refer to imaginary animals and beings as creatures.
• dupe — duplicate.
• figurehead — a person who is head of a group, company, etc., in title but actually has no real authority or responsibility: Most modern kings and queens are figureheads.
• flunky — a male servant in livery.
• go-between — a person who acts as an agent or intermediary between persons or groups; emissary.
• greenhorn — an untrained or inexperienced person.
• hireling — a person who works only for pay, especially in a menial or boring job, with little or no concern for the value of the work.
• idiot — Informal. an utterly foolish or senseless person: If you think you can wear that outfit to a job interview and get hired, you're an idiot!
• intermediary — an intermediate agent or agency; a go-between or mediator.
• lackey — A servant, esp. a liveried footman or manservant.
• mark — Marcus Alonzo ("Mark") 1837–1904, U.S. merchant and politician: senator 1897–1904.
• messenger — a person who carries a message or goes on an errand for another, especially as a matter of duty or business.
• minion — a servile follower or subordinate of a person in power.
• patsy — a person who is easily swindled, deceived, coerced, persuaded, etc.; sucker.
• pawn — to deposit as security, as for money borrowed, especially with a pawnbroker: He raised the money by pawning his watch.
• peon — a messenger, attendant, or orderly.
• puppet — an artificial figure representing a human being or an animal, manipulated by the hand, rods, wires, etc., as on a miniature stage. Compare hand puppet, marionette.
• stooge — an entertainer who feeds lines to the main comedian and usually serves as the butt of his or her jokes.
• sucker — a person or thing that sucks.
• easy mark — sb easily targeted or victimized
• stool pigeon — a pigeon used as a decoy.
• coyote — A coyote is a small wolf which lives in the plains of North America.
• dingo — a wolflike, wild dog, Canis familiaris dingo, of Australia, having a reddish- or yellowish-brown coat.
• hyena — a doglike carnivore of the family Hyaenidae, of Africa, southwestern Asia, and south central Asia, having a coarse coat, a sloping back, and large teeth and feeding chiefly on carrion, often in packs.
• lobo — the gray or timber wolf of the western U.S.
• timber wolf — the gray wolf, Canis lupus, sometimes designated as the subspecies C. lupus occidentalis: formerly common in northern North America but now greatly reduced in number and rare in the conterminous U.S.