puppet master
See also: puppetmaster
English
Etymology
Noun
puppet master (plural puppet masters)
- A person who entertains with, or operates puppets; a puppeteer.
- Synonym: puppeteer
- (figurative, by extension) A person who controls other people or events.
- 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 8:
- Puppet-masters were making us all jump and bray, Malik Solanka fretted. While we marionettes dance, who is yanking our strings?
Further reading
- “puppet master”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “puppet master”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- puppet master, puppetmaster at Google Ngram Viewer
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