mascot

[ mas-kot, -kuht ]

noun

1. an animal, person, or thing adopted by a group as its representative symbol and supposed to bring good luck:

   The U.S. Navy mascot is a goat.

mascot

/ ˈmæskət /

noun

1. a person, animal, or thing considered to bring good luck

Word History and Origins

Origin of mascot¹

1880–85; < French mascotte < Provençal mascoto talisman, charm, derivative of masco sorceress. See mask

Word History and Origins

Origin of mascot¹

C19: from French mascotte, from Provençal mascotto charm, from masco witch

Example Sentences

To get your fix and put some hair on Pelon, the candy’s bald mascot, just hold on to the plastic wings and press down.

From Eater

As for the rest of our presidential forecast, let our forecast mascot Fivey Fox guide you through it.

From FiveThirtyEight

Like other industries, the mascot profession can be a family affair.

From FiveThirtyEight

Seventeen of the league’s 26 primary mascots can be found on land — the highest number of mascots in that category across the five leagues.

From FiveThirtyEight

For this exercise, we considered only the leading, most public-facing mascot for each team, and if a team has multiple signature mascots, we used the one with the earliest origin year.

From FiveThirtyEight

The support of a mascot has confused Christianity and sports.

From The Daily Beast

Joe Camel: For about a decade beginning in 1987, Camel started to market its products using a mascot called “Old Joe.”

From The Daily Beast

What if a Serb mortar team carried a little ginger cat as their mascot?

From The Daily Beast

The fact is, the mascot may be the quiet kid sitting next to you in class with his head down.

From The Daily Beast

Greenbaum says Michael Hostetter, the most introverted mascot of the bunch, is also the most unpredictably exciting.

From The Daily Beast

They take him along whenever they play games, thinking the mascot helps them to win.

From Project Gutenberg

It's a kind of obsession, and it often means life or death, whether the mascot can stand the strain of the situation.

From Project Gutenberg

Mascot means simply a temple, and is used by the Yezidis for mosques and churches as well as for their own shrine.

From Project Gutenberg

It is both a souvenir, and a mascot; for the hair is from the head of my girl chum Margot.

From Project Gutenberg

We are here to drink a bottle of wine together, mademoiselle and I, mademoiselle who was at once my instructress and my mascot.

From Project Gutenberg