English

Noun

meat puppet ‎(plural meat puppets)

1. (slang, US) prostitute
2. (pejorative, slang) a newsreader who is not a reporter
   • 1995. Proceedings of International Symposium on Digital Libraries 1995: August 22-25, 1995 : Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

     "Meat puppet" is ^[sic] television industry term for news anchors who read the news but are not skilled reporters.

   • 1991. American stories, p. 133. Calvin Trillin. Ticknor & Fields.

     A description of some of the beautiful but vacant people who recite the local news.

   • 2001. The Complete Idiot's Guide to a Smart Vocabulary, p.88. Paul McFedries, Alpha Books

     Another not-so-nice term is meat puppet, a newscaster who is the intellectual equivalent of a puppet.

3. (slang, Britain) ****

References

• The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. 2006.