string puppet
Dangling theater doll
A string puppet is a puppet operated by strings or wires attached to its limbs and head, controlled from above by a crossbar or frame.
Also called a marionette.
The term sometimes appears figuratively for someone controlled by another: The dictator installed a string puppet as president.
- control barHang glider steering mechanism
- woodenMade from timber
- PinocchioLying wooden puppet
- controlAuthority to direct
- manipulationUnderhanded control of others
wooden figure · theater · stage · dancing · limbs · jointed · ventriloquist · performance · tangled · master · dangle · articulated · carved · costume · show · pull · twitch · lifeless
- puppetrymarionettes, puppeteers, puppeteering, Bunraku, bunraku
- Puppetsventriloquist dummy, bunraku, Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear
- automatonsautomaton, automata, mechanical man, clockwork, mechanical turk
string puppethand puppet
Worn figure you animate
glove puppet · finger puppet · sock puppet · shadow puppet · ventriloquist dummy
string puppetfree agent
Unsigned professional seeking employment
puppeteer · puppet master · controller · free will · free thinker
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