hand puppet
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of hand puppet
First recorded in 1945–50
Example Sentences
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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
Second place receives a fabulous soft rubbery hand puppet depicting a, well, some indeterminate aquatic creature; guesses included a shark, barracuda, alligator and dinosaur.
From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 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
It wasn’t the first time I noticed this — how Renee kind of swished around in a cloud of perfume, and Annette just popped up like some spastic hand puppet.
From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick
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