Origin: 1500-1600 French poupette, from an unrecorded poupe doll, from Latin pupa; ➔ PUPA
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS►a puppet government/regime/state etc.
(=a government controlled by a more powerful country or organization)
1 a model of a person or animal that you can move by pulling wires or strings, or by putting your hand inside it: a puppet show2disapproving a person or organization that is not independent but is controlled by someone else: a puppet of the ruling partya puppet government/regime/state etc. (=a government controlled by a more powerful country or organization)