hand puppet

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   a puppet with a cloth body and hollow head; fits over the hand

   Synonymsglove puppetglove doll

   Broaderpuppet

Questions about hand puppet

What does hand puppet mean?

hand puppet means "a puppet with a cloth body and hollow head; fits over the hand".

What is another word for hand puppet?

Close synonyms include glove puppet, glove doll. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hand puppet a common word?

hand puppet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.