hand puppet
noun
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.
hand puppets
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pluralof hand puppet.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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She once used hand puppets to help a client confront his anxieties about investing a family inheritance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
He also placed his hand puppets on wall-mounted boxes and ordered his collection of daggers and pocketknives just so.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
Sonics baseball caps, bumper stickers, water bottles, ashtrays, key chains and hand puppets hit shelves.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
But when I was a kid, I did do puppetry — hand puppets, and marionettes, and that sort of thing.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2018
On every block, there are stores displaying wristwatches with flowered bands, black radios blasting Vietnamese songs, televisions projecting hand puppets talking to happy young children, and red traditional dresses on headless mannequins.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
