poster boy

noun

: a male poster child

Examples of poster boy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web But of course, Guadagnino himself isn’t attached to the Bond franchise, just its most recent poster boy. Samantha Riedel, Them, 4 Sep. 2024 Jelly Roll, the newcomer in the category, has had a monstrous year, and has arguably become the new poster boy for country in a similar way to how last year’s winner, Wilson, had become the new poster girl. Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Sep. 2024 Photo : Getty/Patek Philippe Lionel Messi: Patek Philippe Nautilus Lionel Messi, the unofficial poster boy for Patek Philippe, rocked another glorious Nautilus at a League Cup match between Inter Miami CF and Toronto FC. Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2024 Always the alpha mutant in the X-Men movies, this scrapper with the retractable claws pushed the envelope of superhero comics in the Eighties and became the poster boy for masculine superhero-movie moodiness in the early 2000s. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for poster boy 

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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 3 Oct. 2024.

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