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Charlie mccarthy

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person under the control of another; a puppet or mouthpiece. dated

    "For the next thirty minutes, I was kind of a prop, his Charlie McCarthy, as he explained some of the things about the building."

Etymology

After Charlie McCarthy, the dummy of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen.

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