sock puppet
noun
1
: a hand puppet made with a sock
2
: a false online identity used for deceptive purposes
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One kind and patient spectator conscripted to play the school counselor had to remove her shoe to improvise a sock puppet, one of the tools of her empathetic practice.
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Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
Use them for dusting, slipping over the head of a Swiffer to mop up a spill, or for making a sock puppet.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 13 Jan. 2026
The group watches as a sock puppet opens up a lemonade stand for business and frolics around a lemon farm before Tomlinson dives into a swimming pool.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2025
The dot-com bubble enveloped hundreds of startups that had people bidding for groceries and buying dog food from a sock puppet, few of whom made profits.
—Diane Brady, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2025
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Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
Use them for dusting, slipping over the head of a Swiffer to mop up a spill, or for making a sock puppet.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 13 Jan. 2026
The group watches as a sock puppet opens up a lemonade stand for business and frolics around a lemon farm before Tomlinson dives into a swimming pool.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2025
The dot-com bubble enveloped hundreds of startups that had people bidding for groceries and buying dog food from a sock puppet, few of whom made profits.
—Diane Brady, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2025
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“Sock puppet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sock%20puppet. Accessed 28 Mar. 2026.
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