Why is “meat puppets” slang for breasts? From what I read, that is the case, but I’d think the slang would be “milk puppets”. I’m placing this question in IMHO since I’m basically just stating that it doesn’t make logical sense to me, but the origin of the slang would be of interest.
Meat puppet is slang for penis from what I have heard.
what a disrespectful term to refer to a woman’s fun bags.
Boobies!
I’ve never heard it used to mean breasts or penis before. Thought it was just a wry/reductive term for a human being.
Exactly.
Sweater Zeppelins, on the other hand…
Chesticles.
If I could go back in time I’d form a band called The Meat Puppets and get booked on The Ed Sullivan Show just to hear him introduce us.
Ditto.
I saw the band in the late 90s though. Great show.
Same here.
Wikipedia lists a human under the control of someone else, a human body, or a model (a runway type of model) and also mentions a band by that name (sorry kayaker, someone beat you to it).
Urban dictionary lists someone who has no will of their own, an idiot, a human being (especially one that does not think for himself/herself), being able to move your penis around without touching it, a male porn actor, a male human, and “A person of below average height, such as a midget, who enjoys having entire hands, or fists, inserted into their rectum, thus looking like a live puppet to any viewers”.
If breasts were a common usage for the term I would have expected it to show up on the urban dictionary site.
Back in the old DOS days, there was a computer game called Meat Puppet. In that game they used the term as someone under the control of someone else. According to the game, “After all, you and your partner are only pawns. You’re an expendable tool, once a whore, now an assassin. You’re nothing but a Meat Puppet.” The cover art does feature a great set of knockers though.
The TV tropes page doesn’t mention breasts either.
That was always my interpretation of the band’s name, but I read that it’s a slang for breasts, I believe, in the Random House slang dictionary, but I don’t have it nearby to double check.
Foiled again! Dammit, Janet!
+1
The first time I heard someone use the term “meat puppets” , they were talking about the people in holodeck simulations on Star Trek.
In William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer, meat puppet was slang for people who hired their bodies out for prostitution, but had a “cut-out” chip installed in their brain so they’d basically be comatose for the entire thing. The establishment you worked for had software to control your body while you were out of it/working.
And in Fifth Element, Korben Dallas was a meat popsicle. Not sure what to make of that one, in this context.
Some wang just thought he would style the term as a new phrase for jugs, and when it became popular (which it won’t) he could tell everybody that he was the wit who invented it.
He’ll probably be wondering 50 years from now, when he’s all alone on Christmas Eve, why his magnum opus never caught on.
Also known as a corpsicle.
“Sweater puppies” I’ve heard.
and also “sweater meat”
(not condoning, just saying I’ve heard it)