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1
a small figure often of a human being used especially as a child's plaything
- gave her a puppet with strings for a gift
Synonyms for puppet
- action figure,
- doll,
- dolly,
- poppet
- [Midland]
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2
one that is or can be used to further the purposes of another
- accused the newspaper editor of being a puppet for the moneyed people of the town
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“Puppet.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puppet. Accessed 7 December 2019.
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The first known use of puppet was in 1538
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