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sock puppeting

sock puppeting is the present participle and gerund of sock puppet.

Meaning of sock puppet

Verb

sock puppet (third-person singular simple present sock puppets, present participle sock puppeting, simple past and past participle sock puppeted)

  1. (intransitive, transitive, wiki jargon) To create or use a sock puppet (alternative user account).

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Questions about sock puppeting

What is sock puppeting the present participle and gerund of?
Sock puppeting is the present participle and gerund of sock puppet.

Words near sock puppeting in the dictionary

  1. sock monkeys
  2. sock puppet
  3. sock puppeted
  4. sock puppeteer
  5. sock puppeteers
  6. sock puppeting
  7. sock puppetry
  8. sock puppets
  9. sock yarn
  10. sock yarns
  11. sock-knocking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sock puppeting (page history and authors); sock puppet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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