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Charlie McCarthy

noun

Etymology

After Charlie McCarthy, the dummy of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen.

Definitions

  1. A person under the control of another

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

    • For the next thirty minutes, I was kind of a prop, his Charlie McCarthy, as he explained some of the things about the building.
    • The president has perfected his role as politics' answer to ventriloquist Edgar Bergen—using the Democrats as his Charlie McCarthy.

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