A play or dramatic performance enacted with puppets. Also figurative.

A dramatic performance enacted with puppets; a puppet play. Also figurative and in extended use.

A show, an entertainment; spec. a puppet-show. Obsolete.

Something humorous or funny. A comic play or entertainment; a puppet-show; a puppet.

= puppet play, n. 1.

= puppet show, n.

A comic or farcical composition or representation; a farce; an enacted piece of buffoonery; a puppet-show. Obsolete.

Scottish, English regional (northern and midlands), and U.S. regional (chiefly southern). A puppet show; (also) a small box containing a display…

A dramatic representation in which these are the performers; a marionette show.