American English pronunciation

How to pronounce puppet

IPA transcription: ['pʌpət]

Pronunciation variants: ['pʌpət]['pʌpɪt]

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Noun

  • a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer

  • a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else

  • a doll with a hollow head of a person or animal and a cloth body; intended to fit over the hand and be manipulated with the fingers

Usage examples

  • She refuses, not wishing to be a puppet monarch of the Japanese.
  • It was as if Carl realised that he was a puppet under someone else's control.
  • It was as if Carl realised that he was a puppet under someone else's control.
  • The program featured various puppet characters who live in a Giant's wind-up music box.
  • Puppet characters were later introduced.
  • It also host puppet shows and hockey games.
  • I suppose it was the gobbledegook and the mixture of live action with puppets.
  • He is the puppeteer responsible for training the puppeteers on "Sesame Tree".
  • The scum are searching for a puppet.
  • The puppets, who had only very limited movements, looked very alike.