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Definition 2024


sock_puppeteer

sock puppeteer

See also: sockpuppeteer

English

Noun

sock puppeteer (plural sock puppeteers)

  1. Someone who controls a sock puppet (a simple puppet made from a sock).
  2. (Internet) A user in an online community, who has two or more accounts set up by them so as to seem to be from different users.

Quotations

  • "(…)if an account is identified as a sockpuppeteer, [it] will be labeled as such and the account blocked."