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    [Noun]  | "pup*pet" | \ ˈpə-pət \


    1: a small-scale figure (as of a person or animal) usually with a cloth body and hollow head that fits over and is moved by the hand

    2: marionette

    3: doll


    Origin: 1538 ;

     Middle English popet youth, doll, from Middle French poupette, diminutive of *poupe doll, from Vulgar Latin *puppa, alteration of Latin pupa;

    [Noun]  | "puppet regime" 


    1: a government controlled by the government of another country

    [Noun]  | "hand puppet" 


    1: puppet


    Origin: 1929 ;

    [Noun]  | "sock puppet" 


    1: a hand puppet made with a sock

    2: a false online identity used for deceptive purposes


    Origin: 1959 ;

    [Noun]  | "glove puppet" 


    1: a puppet that fits over the hand like a glove and is moved by the fingers and hand of its wearer : hand puppet

    [Noun]  | "puppet" 


    1: a small figure often of a human being used especially as a child's plaything;


      * e.g., " ... gave her a puppet with strings for a gift "



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    2: one that is or can be used to further the purposes of another;


      * e.g., " ... accused the newspaper editor of being a puppet for the moneyed people of the town "



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    [Noun]  | "hand puppet" 


    1: as in doll, puppet;




     [ "puppet" ]

    1:  A person that is easily controlled by others.

      * e.g.,  ... I don't trust you. You are just a puppet. 


     [ "puppet" ]

    2:  A person that conforms to pointless ideals set by others.


     [ "puppet" ]

    3:  A person who changes opinions or views rapidly based on someone else's views/opinions.

     [ "puppet" ]

    1:  A person not capable of forming his or her own ideas. Often, the person will adopt a set of ideals and protect them vehemently by ridiculing other peoples' values.

      * e.g.,  ... Conformists. Posers. Teeny-boppers. Anybody easily impressionable 


     [ "puppet" ]

    2:  A person being manipulated, whether he he realizes it or not. See: tool

     [ "puppet" ]

    1: Something controlled by something else.

      * e.g.,  ... See wordAvril/word, wordGeorge W. Bush/word, wordetc/word 

     [ "puppet" ]

    1: puppet / puppet government - A person, organization, or government that is highly influenced by and acts on behalf of another party. The puppet will often do as the other party says without too much resistance and may be seen as afraid to think or act independently, sometimes in fear of possible punishment by the puppet master.

      * e.g.,  ...  Northern Cyprus is run as a puppet state of Turkey. A puppet government has been installed in many countries by the CIA. The US government orchestrated the overthrow of the elected government in Ukraine and imposed a US puppet in Kiev. 

     [ "puppet" ]

    1: An alter ego created on an message board or news group primarily to troll.

      * e.g.,  ... Did you see that puppet's post? Yes, he started a huge flame war! 

     [ "puppet" ]

    1: to overload on blusher/bronzer type cosmetics, resulting in unattractively firey cheeks.

      * e.g.,  ... am i puppet? 

     [ "puppet" ]

    1: a wrestling psycho dwarf

      * e.g.,  ... Puppet the Psycho Dwarf 

     [ "puppet" ]

    1:  A toy, usually shaped like and animal or human that is controlled by either a hand up its ass or from strings attached to its limbs and body.

      * e.g.,  ...  Steven: That's a cool puppet. 


     [ "puppet" ]

    2:  An alternate name for a cigarette. Orginating from Cockney Rhyming Slang. Cigarette rhymes with Marionette which is a puppet.

      * e.g.,  ...  George: There is no such thing as a cool puppet. 

     [ "puppeteer" ]

    1: Soneone with a life so sad that they try to control someone else's to deny their own reality.

      * e.g.,  ... Jack: Man I swear John keeps trying me how to live, where I should go and what to spend money on. 

     [ "The Puppeteer" ]

    1: An increasingly popular nickname for Vladimir Putin.

      * e.g.,  ... From the very beginning of my fake presidency, I have been committed to assisting my old friend, The Puppeteer, in making America great again! 

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