poster child
Americannoun
-
a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
-
a person or thing that exemplifies or represents.
She could be a poster child for good sportsmanship.
Etymology
Origin of poster child
First recorded in 1990–95
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
“San Francisco was the poster child for the doom loop and has pivoted to downtown recovery,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times
If Hulu’s “Shoresy” is the poster child for successfully balancing raunch and heart, “Ted” is on the opposite end — crass and lazy.
From MarketWatch
On one hand, “someone can argue that Block is not exactly a poster child of an efficiently run company,” noting “duplicate cost functions across Block” on a historical basis.
From MarketWatch
Not long ago, megacap tech was Wall Street’s poster child for frothy valuation.
From MarketWatch
Salesforce has been the poster child for Wall Street’s concerns about business software and the growth prospects of the software-as-a-service model.
From MarketWatch
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
