Usually means: Glove-like puppet for storytelling.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word hand puppet:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. hand puppet: Merriam-Webster
  2. hand puppet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hand puppet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hand puppet: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hand puppet: Vocabulary.com
  6. hand-puppet: Wordnik
  7. hand puppet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hand-puppet, hand puppet: Wiktionary
  9. hand puppet: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. hand puppet: Dictionary.com
  11. Hand puppet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. hand puppet: Rhymezone
  13. hand puppet: FreeDictionary.org
  14. hand puppet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. hand puppet: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hand puppet)

▸ noun:  A puppet operated by the hand, especially one in which the puppeteer's hand occupies and controls the head.

Similar:
glove doll, finger puppet, sock puppet, puppet, shadow puppet, hand shaker, hand, handlock, poupeton, punch, more...

Opposite:
marionette, ventriloquist dummy, full-body puppet

Types:
sock puppet, marionette, hand-and-rod puppet, shadow puppet, more...

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Similar:
glove doll, finger puppet, sock puppet, puppet, shadow puppet, hand shaker, hand, handlock, poupeton, punch, more...

Opposite:
marionette, ventriloquist dummy, full-body puppet

Types:
sock puppet, marionette, hand-and-rod puppet, shadow puppet, more...



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