meat puppets

Noun

meat puppet (plural meat puppets)

1. A human body without consciousness.
   • Blood-spurting meat puppets did herky-jerky hulas as the lethal barrage of multipurpose rounds struck their targets with pinpoint accuracy and devastating results.1991 ·, John Sievert, Death Zone Attack, page 52
2. A person who mindlessly follows the commands of others.
   • This takes on serious implications if the meat puppet itself can be spammed — personality could be erased, augmented, juxtaposed, stolen or hidden behind — and presumably there would be attempts to make such activities illegal.1998, Neil Spiller, Digital Dreams: Architecture and the New Alchemic Technologies, page 69
3. (derogatory, slang) A newsreader, especially one who is not a reporter.
   • I played what Penn likes to refer to as “the meat puppet.” It’s a term he picked up from television cameramen, who invented it as a description of some of the beautiful but vacant people who recite the local news.1989, Calvin Trillin, “A Couple of Eccentric Guys”, in The New Yorker
4. A body that is controlled by someone or something else.
   • In a reversal of McLuhan, "man" becomes the extension of the nanotechnological, a meat puppet run by molecular machines.1990, Qui Parle - Volumes 4-5, page 16
5. (slang) A penis.
   • Here, sonny, want to see my meat puppet?1990, Matthew J. Costello, Midsummer, page 176
6. A user who makes unconstructive edits on behalf of another user.