# Meat Puppets Slang For Breasts - Why? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 11, 2012, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-puppets-slang-for-breasts-why/643732 "2012-12-11T19:39:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-puppets-slang-for-breasts-why/643732/1 "2012-12-11T19:39:15Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-puppets-slang-for-breasts-why/643732/2 "2012-12-11T19:46:44Z")
Meat puppet is slang for penis from what I have heard. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-puppets-slang-for-breasts-why/643732/3 "2012-12-11T19:54:13Z")
what a disrespectful term to refer to a woman’s fun bags. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-puppets-slang-for-breasts-why/643732/4 "2012-12-11T20:04:06Z")
Boobies! ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-puppets-slang-for-breasts-why/643732/5 "2012-12-11T20:08:50Z")
I’ve never heard it used to mean breasts or penis before. Thought it was just a wry/reductive term for a human being. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-puppets-slang-for-breasts-why/643732/6 "2012-12-11T20:15:20Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > 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… ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Doom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Dr\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Doom)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-puppets-slang-for-breasts-why/643732/7 "2012-12-11T20:19:12Z")
Chesticles. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-puppets-slang-for-breasts-why/643732/8 "2012-12-11T20:21:35Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-puppets-slang-for-breasts-why/643732/9 "2012-12-11T20:26:12Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > I’ve never heard it used to mean breasts or penis before. Thought it was just a wry/reductive term for a human being. Ditto. I saw the band in the late 90s though. Great show. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/B51VVOWtRxc/hqdefault.jpg "MEAT PUPPETS - "Lake of Fire" live in Austin (1/17/99)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B51VVOWtRxc) ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-puppets-slang-for-breasts-why/643732/10 "2012-12-11T20:28:25Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > I’ve never heard it used to mean breasts or penis before. Thought it was just a wry/reductive term for a human being. 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. ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-puppets-slang-for-breasts-why/643732/11 "2012-12-11T20:41:15Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > 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), 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. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-puppets-slang-for-breasts-why/643732/12 "2012-12-11T20:42:13Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > a band by that name (sorry **kayaker** , someone beat you to it). Foiled again! Dammit, Janet! ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-puppets-slang-for-breasts-why/643732/13 "2012-12-11T20:44:44Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > Exactly. +1 ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-puppets-slang-for-breasts-why/643732/14 "2012-12-11T21:09:59Z")
The first time I heard someone use the term “meat puppets” , they were talking about the people in holodeck simulations on Star Trek. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-puppets-slang-for-breasts-why/643732/15 "2012-12-11T21:13:10Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-puppets-slang-for-breasts-why/643732/16 "2012-12-11T21:25:53Z")
And in _Fifth Element_, Korben Dallas was a meat popsicle. Not sure what to make of that one, in this context. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-puppets-slang-for-breasts-why/643732/17 "2012-12-12T02:54:20Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-puppets-slang-for-breasts-why/643732/18 "2012-12-12T03:57:06Z")
> [@NitroPress](#): > > And in _Fifth Element_, Korben Dallas was a meat popsicle. Not sure what to make of that one, in this context. Also known as a corpsicle. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-puppets-slang-for-breasts-why/643732/19 "2012-12-12T11:14:29Z")
“Sweater puppies” I’ve heard. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-puppets-slang-for-breasts-why/643732/20 "2012-12-12T16:01:57Z")
and also “sweater meat” (not condoning, just saying I’ve heard it) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-puppets-slang-for-breasts-why/643732.md?page=2)