Wiktionary
alt. 1 A simple puppet made from a sock placed over the hand of the puppeteer. 2 A person being completely controlled by another. 3 (context Internet neologism English) A pseudonym used by someone to distance themselves from their actions, especially to talk about themselves in the guise of a neutral observer n. 1 A simple puppet made from a sock placed over the hand of the puppeteer. 2 A person being completely controlled by another. 3 (context Internet neologism English) A pseudonym used by someone to distance themselves from their actions, especially to talk about themselves in the guise of a neutral observer
Wikipedia
A sock puppet is a puppet made from a sock or similar garment. The puppeteer wears the sock on a hand and lower arm as if it were a glove, with the puppet's mouth being formed by the region between the sock's heel and toe, and the puppeteer's thumb acting as the jaw. The arrangement of the fingers forms the shape of a mouth, which is sometimes padded with a hard piece of felt, often with a tongue glued inside.
The sock is stretched out fully so that it is long enough to cover the puppeteer's wrist and part of the arm. Often, the puppeteer hides behind a stand and raise the hand above it so that only the puppet is visible. Sock puppeteers may also stand in full view along with their puppets and hold conversations with them using ventriloquism.
Usage examples of "sock puppet".
Driving between these gigs was part of remaining a real and true sandsucker, and although she loved the barren badlands and the sweeping vistas of silver sage, she understood how the daunting emptiness of the desert could leave you smiling as vacuously as a sock puppet, and set you to talking of death and peanuts to an imaginary friend.
She had other voices, too, for other dolls, and one for a sock puppet named Smelly.
It oozed quickly to the side to trap him against the precipice then stretched upward again, its mouth hanging open in an idiot gape that made it look like some kind of giant, cancerous sock puppet.
It dropped to the ground, its head resembling some absurd little sock puppet that its owner had abandoned in the grass.