sock puppet
noun
1A simple hand puppet made from a sock.The company logged huge accolades for TV ads with its famous sock puppet....
- He has the emoting range of a sock puppet.
- "Waiting for Godot", according to the poster for a lunchtime show, will be "performed by sock puppets".
1.1A person whose actions are controlled by another: a brainless sock puppet who only knows what to say because his handlers feed him his lines...
- It's obvious you are a Gore sock puppet.
- These three are conservatives as opposed to Right Wing sock puppets.
- I've railed against the RIAA and MPAA and their congressional sock puppets in some of the cruelest language I've ever used in print.
1.2A false online identity, typically created by a person or group in order to promote their own opinions or views: both sides in the debate use sock puppets to make it seem as if scores of people are arguing a point...
- Okay, so I ponied up for a sock puppet just to respond some more.
- His story combines a hot issue with intrigue, allegations of lying, internet sock puppets, and scientific misconduct.
- That's clearly Nick's sock puppet, being used to justify the existence of this thread.
Derivatives
sock puppetry
- Recently, a senior editor got in trouble for some particularly colorful sock puppetry.
- Sock puppetry may be rampant online, but journalists writing for their employer's Web site have a greater responsibility to be honest than run-of-the-mill posters.
- The PR industry must condemn massive, automated sock-puppetry.