Meanings
nounpuppet master (plural puppet masters)
plural puppet masters
- broadlyfigurativelyA person who controls other people or events.
Puppet-masters were making us all jump and bray, Malik Solanka fretted. While we marionettes dance, who is yanking our strings?
2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 8
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA person who entertains with, or operates puppets; a puppeteer.
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puppet master. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/puppet%20master
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