[Informal] a hired thug; a lackey; a flunky; a henchman
She is a Hillary flunky who lost big.
When I say this, I feel me like a snobbish flunky.
He required his students to "be a scholar after the style of the gentleman and not that of the flunky" (Piece of Yongye, the Analects①).
Victor Henry was tired of being a flunky to mighty men, tired of anonymous responsibility for major problems.