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What is a puppet?

What is a puppet? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove.
  2. (figuratively) A person, country, etc, controlled by another.
  3. (obsolete) A poppet; a small image in the human form; a doll.
  4. (engineering) The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.
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One of Conan's regular skits is the hand puppet named Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.
To get the message across, they use a glove puppet to help illustrate scenarios.
He was like a puppet without strings now, just sitting there, staring out the window.
And there may be some bad news in the announcement that the first release will include a booklet and a Bullwinkle hand puppet.
There are hand puppets, full body puppets and at least one monster puppet that fills the entire stage.
How do you do that, when a hand puppet represents the antagonist, or to simulate a rocket taking off, the camera pulls away from a desk lamp?

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