ventriloquist

Possessives

• dummy: We've got Wang, who's the Korean ventriloquist's dummy from Big Fish.
• doll: Bill, was a rather dilapidated ventriloquist's doll that Baird had been using for many months in his experiments.
• trick: Business has made a ventriloquist's trick of the humanity we take for granted.

Converse of object

• become: Whilst at junior school he became only the second ever British ventriloquist to have a radio show.
• do: With the circus in town, why does the ventriloquist have nothing to say?
• have: This thing of having a single ventriloquist with one small dummy comes from the late music hall era.

Adjective modifier

• good: IAN: Well, could you help me become a better ventriloquist?

Modifies a noun

• dummy: Ventriloquist dummies, perhaps not falling strictly into the category of dolls, carry even heavier baggage.
• act: The entertainment was varied by Richard doing a ventriloquist act!
• doll: We do think the ventriloquist doll deserves his own film - which I guess is why we're writing ' Shhh ' !
• skill: The staff liked him too ( despite his habit of practicing his ventriloquist skills on unsuspecting employees ).