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- noun Attributive form of
hand puppet
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Examples
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Garcia is known as "El Compayito" after a popular Mexican hand-puppet character created by an entertainer who dresses up his hand and puts eyes on it.
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And Jason may not have a possessed hand-puppet or even be possessed himself but just a teenager who misses his dad and feels the weight of having to be everything to his mother.
Michael Giltz: Theater: "Hand To God" Has Devilish Fun With Puppets Michael Giltz 2011
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However, watching Cheney twist the Constitution and use GW as a hand-puppet while getting filthy rich (Haliburton) made me physically ill.
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Garcia is known as "El Compayito" after a popular Mexican hand-puppet character created by an entertainer who dresses up his hand and puts eyes on it.
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Most Americans find them and their hand-puppet, Sarah Palin, disgusting. txleadhead
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The monkey hand-puppet was a freebie; all future gifts need to be earned.
Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09 Cath@VWXYNot? 2009
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The magical Will S. (get it?) is a convenient if sometimes intrusive device: Portrayed by Louis Butelli, Will sits from time to time on the lip of the stage with hand-puppet versions of the royal characters, who soon enough will be enacting the puppet master's whims.
Theater review: Folger Theatre's 'Henry VIII' Peter Marks 2010
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Spooky got me a little tarantula hand-puppet as a get-well present.
"All the jagged edges disappear..." greygirlbeast 2009
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A straggly, hand-puppet beast – a one-time mighty cucumber-lifter – sits dolefully in a rocking chair in his cosy cardboard box, indulging in a death scene as protracted as a Victorian melodrama.
Ulster Bank Dublin theatre festival – review Susannah Clapp 2010
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'The Beaver,' a hand-puppet tale that overexplains itself, still fits Gibson like a glove.
'Thor': A Vehicle of Low Norsepower Joe Morgenstern 2011
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