0 someone who entertains people by speaking without moving their lips, to make it seem as if the voice is coming from somewhere else : --
Together they performed a unique ventriloquist show on television.
After being badly burned in a household accident, she was given a ventriloquist's dummy by her artist father as part of her recovery.
The ventriloquist figures usually had a string coming from the back of the neck that would cause their mouths to open and close.
The ventriloquist would then interpret the sounds, as they were thought to be able to speak to the dead, as well as foretell the future.
Her final wish was to turn her body into a ventriloquist's puppet and to be buried with her 101 puppets.
He continued to perform late in life, giving televised music hall performances in 1952, billed as the oldest ventriloquist in the world.
There seems to be some ventriloquist about.
That was what led me to say that they were puppets—although ventriloquists' dummies might have been a more accurate description.