American English pronunciation
How to pronounce puppet
IPA transcription: ['pʌpət]
Pronunciation variants: ['pʌpət]['pʌpɪt]
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Noun
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a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer
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a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else
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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.