muppets

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Because muppets don't believe they are muppets.

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Quick take

One of a group of established puppet characters acting as a sort of repertory company on The Muppet Show, and/or appearing on Sesame Street.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of muppets gathered in one view.

noun

One of a group of established puppet characters acting as a sort of repertory company on The Muppet Show, and/or appearing on Sesame Street.

noun

A term of endearment, used with a young girl

noun

Alternative form of Muppet (“a puppet in the style of Jim Henson's Muppets”). [A term of endearment, used with a young girl]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for muppets.

noun

One of a group of established puppet characters acting as a sort of repertory company on The Muppet Show, and/or appearing on Sesame Street.

noun

A term of endearment, used with a young girl

noun

Alternative form of Muppet (“a puppet in the style of Jim Henson's Muppets”). [A term of endearment, used with a young girl]

noun

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang, derogatory) An incompetent or foolish person.

Example sentences

Because muppets don't believe they are muppets.

Basically, I think the NSA is mostly a bunch of useless muppets, and I don't see why we should keep making their job easy.

Still, it was useful in keeping the clueless muppets away, lest they fuck up other tech ecosystems.

We just switched to greek gods, ran out of muppets and magic roundabout characters.

The float looks small though, so there's hope for last round's muppets.

Call me naive, but I reckon these absolute muppets will find a way to f*ck up regardless of language technology.

But, if you don't IPO, how do you exit, leaving the muppets with the stock, whilst you run with the cash?

I'll raise a glass or two to the end of the ad muppets!

So why do the muppets keep playing this game?

>his show follows one about muppets because he wants to make sure people don't mistake his comedy for general political activism.

Because most LPs are muppets who will continue buying the same inferior product, the real imperative for a venture firm is to make sure its funds are not total dogs.

Sure, maybe the network admins at five different companies I've worked for all just happen to be a bunch of muppets, but I highly doubt it.

Quote examples

Also that given our education system, the best and brightest do not become teachers, thus any sort of "gifted" program is going to be for muppets by muppets.

The banks smartly foisted off some of their "residual risks" onto muppets and companies like AIG, who stupidly accepted the business.

The biggest fail in IT - "I can't find experienced developers in Erlang/<some other tech>": Most employers are muppets.

The "muppets" are multi-billionaire asset holders.

Proper noun examples

Muppets are usually pension funds, where the people doing the investing want to do it as easy as possible and with high rewards so they get the bonus for doing nothing.