A ventriloquist is someone who can speak without moving their lips and who entertains people by making their words appear to be spoken by a puppet.
He looked like a ventriloquist's dummy.
ventriloquist in American English
(vɛnˈtrɪləkwɪst)
noun
a person who practices ventriloquism; specif., an entertainer who uses ventriloquism to carry on a pretended conversation as with a large puppet, or dummy
Derived forms
ventriloquistic (venˌtriloˈquistic)
adjective
Examples of 'ventriloquist' in a sentence
ventriloquist
Is this ventriloquist a dummy - or funny?
The Sun (2010)
He seemed an unpromising ventriloquist's dummy.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Could a ventriloquist's dummy have anything to do with it?
The Sun (2008)
Let's not be conned into thinking the emergency ventriloquist act is a special treat.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
He made his stage debut at the age of two as a ventriloquist's dummy and appeared on radio shows.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
In one corner was a ventriloquist's dummy, whose eyes seemed to follow you around.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The 21-year-old is set to wow the judges with his ventriloquist act on tonight's show.
The Sun (2014)
She talks rather like a ventriloquist, without moving her lips, though she eschews the fixed smile.