noun
- a movable model of a person or animal that is controlled by strings, wires, or by putting your hand inside it
- a person or organization that is controlled by someone else and has no real power or independence
Usage: figurative
Examples
- The children watched a puppet show at the theater.
- She moved the hand puppet to make it talk.
- The marionette puppet danced on strings.
- The dictator installed a puppet government in the occupied territory.
- He felt like a puppet being controlled by his boss.
- The sock puppet entertained the toddlers.
- Critics called the new leader a puppet of foreign powers.