Usually means: Controller of puppets for performance.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word puppeteer:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. puppeteer: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. puppeteer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. puppeteer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. puppeteer: Collins English Dictionary
  5. puppeteer: Vocabulary.com
  6. Puppeteer, puppeteer: Wordnik
  7. puppeteer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. puppeteer: Wiktionary
  9. puppeteer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. puppeteer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. puppeteer: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. puppeteer: Dictionary.com
  13. puppeteer: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Puppeteer (comics), Puppeteer (disambiguation), Puppeteer (video game), Puppeteer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. puppeteer: Rhymezone
  16. puppeteer: FreeDictionary.org
  17. puppeteer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. puppeteer: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. puppeteer: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Puppeteer: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See puppeteering as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A person who uses a puppet.
noun:  (figurative) Someone who is manipulative and thus able to get people to do what they want or to make events develop in the way they want in a puppet-like manner.
verb:  To control (a puppet).
verb:  (figurative) To control (an event, person, or organization) from behind the scenes.

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