poster boy

noun

1. a person who appears on a poster

2. a person who typifies or represents a particular characteristic, cause, opinion, etc

   a poster girl for late motherhood

Example Sentences

Makowsky calls Garfield “a poster boy for the American dream,” rising from poverty to the nation’s top office.

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She's since won a role in the film I Swear, which tells the story of John Davidson who became the reluctant poster boy for the then little known condition in the 1980s.

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Rogers, on the evidence of England's past two games, is fast becoming the poster boy for the new identity Tuchel wants to create.

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John Davidson became the reluctant poster boy for Tourette's Syndrome when he was just 16 years old.

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Kelly: You must be the poster boy if your mum's at the school.

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