Usually means: Controlled figure for theatrical performance.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word puppet:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. puppet: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. puppet: Merriam-Webster
  3. puppet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. puppet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. puppet: Collins English Dictionary
  6. puppet: Vocabulary.com
  7. Puppet, puppet: Wordnik
  8. puppet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. puppet: Wiktionary
  10. puppet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. puppet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. puppet: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Puppet, puppet: Dictionary.com
  14. puppet: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. puppet: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Puppet (Naruto), Puppet (artist), Puppet (company), Puppet (disambiguation), Puppet (film), Puppet (software), Puppet, The Puppet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Puppet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. puppet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. puppet: Rhymezone
  20. puppet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. puppet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. puppet: FreeDictionary.org
  23. puppet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. puppet: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. puppet: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. puppet: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. puppet: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. the puppet: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

(Note: See puppeting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove.
noun:  (figuratively) A person, country, etc, controlled by another.
noun:  (obsolete) A poppet; a small image in the human form; a doll.
noun:  (engineering) The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.
verb:  (transitive, also figuratively) To control or manipulate like a puppet.

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