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Punch for one Italian plumber abusing tenet (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

marionette

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'punch' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?

'one italian plumber abusing tenet' is the wordplay.
'one italian plumber' becomes 'mario' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'abusing' is an anagram indicator (I've seen 'abused' mean this).
'tenet' is an anagram of 'nette'.
'mario'+'nette'='MARIONETTE'

'for' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for marionette that I've seen before include "Pinocchio say" , "Puppet on strings" , "being manipulated by others" , "One has strings pulled" , "one that needs stringing up" .)

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