verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To reduce (a person) to a puppet or mouthpiece for oneself. transitive
2. 2
   To configure (a system) using the Puppet software configuration management tool. transitive

Etymology

From puppet + -ize.

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