poster boy

noun

: a male poster child

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While future editions of the Red Sox will need farm system poster boys Roman Anthony, Kristian Campbell and Marcelo Mayer to live up to all the hype (or some of it, anyway), the fact is that the kids in the minors only sell hope. Steve Buckley, The Athletic, 15 Feb. 2025 Maybe the league has cracked down on giving its poster boy so much benefit of the doubt. Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025 Onscreen, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon are practically poster boys for men in white jeans, especially on the Riviera. Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025 The apple of snooty mom Victoria's (Parker Posey) eye, who works the family finance business with his dad Timothy (Jason Isaacs), party-loving pool cretin Saxon is this season's poster boy for misguided masculinity. Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for poster boy

Word History

First Known Use

1946, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of poster boy was in 1946

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“Poster boy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poster%20boy. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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