hand puppet

American  

noun

1. a puppet made of a hollow head sewn or glued to material that fits over the hand, concealing the fingers and thumb, which manipulate it.

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Etymology

Origin of hand puppet

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

“This one is Lamb Chop,” he said, cradling a brittle rubber head that is all that remained of a hand puppet that was the television ventriloquist Shari Lewis’s sidekick.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2022

You might even consider getting a hand puppet or small stuffed animal to assist.

From Slate • Aug. 13, 2021

When teaching the chicks to hunt and other crane behaviors, they dress in baggy costumes with the neck of a crane-head hand puppet holding in one loose, black-tipped “wing.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 14, 2021

Any show that manages to get Maya Rudolph, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Barbra Streisand, Serena Williams and Melissa McCarthy with a rabbit hand puppet on stage is doing something right.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2019

He began tossing things out —a Ping-Pong paddle, a cowboy hat, a hand puppet, swim fins.

From "Wolfie & Fly" by Cary Fagan