Word.ws English Dictionary

sock puppets

sock puppets is the plural of sock puppet.

sock puppets is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sock puppet.

Meaning of sock puppet

Noun

sock puppet (plural sock puppets)

  1. A puppet made from a sock placed over a hand.
  2. Synonym of puppet (“a person completely controlled by another”)
    Synonyms:
    puppet
  3. (Internet, derogatory) An alternative pseudonymous online account, especially one used for abuse.
    • Trying to prove that a new user is simply a previous user in a new sock puppet is quite hard for the ordinary user and even administrators.2009, Andrew Lih, The Wikipedia Revolution, page 303
    Synonyms:
    sock, smurf account

See all 4 meanings of sock puppet

Questions about sock puppets

What is sock puppets the plural of?
Sock puppets is the plural of sock puppet.

Words near sock puppets in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sock puppets (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “sock puppets.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sock_puppets. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.