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| Bunraku |
a traditional form of Japanese puppet theater, that uses large wooden puppets manipulated by visible puppeteers who are dressed in black. |
| jack-in-the-box |
a toy consisting of a box from which a puppet springs up when the lid is opened. |
| marionette |
a puppet whose jointed limbs are operated with strings or wires. |
| Punch |
the hook-nosed, humpbacked husband of Judy in the Punch-and-Judy puppet show. |
| Punch-and-Judy show |
a puppet show consisting of slapstick humor in which the grotesque and quarrelsome Punch constantly fights with his wife Judy. |
| Punchinello |
the chief comic character in a traditional Italian puppet show who is the prototype of Punch, or a person resembling this character. |
| ventriloquist |
a person who can speak or utter sounds without moving his or her lips, and who makes a puppet, other person, or animal appear to speak, esp. as a form of entertainment. |
| wirepuller |
one who manipulates wires or strings, as of a puppet. [1/2 definitions] |
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