poster boy

poster girl

noun

a person who appears on a poster
a person who typifies or represents a particular characteristic, cause, opinion, etc: a poster girl for late motherhood

US equivalent: poster child

Words Nearby poster boy

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How to use poster boy in a sentence

It just came at a time when people were ready to say, “Yeah, this movie can be our poster boy.”
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They are trying to make him the poster boy for their anti-abortion, anti-same sex [marriage] agenda.
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Manning is too easy to turn into a poster boy, an easy icon, a cause.
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Evidently, Gibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz in short order made himself into a poster boy for fettered capitalism.
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But in Wisconsin, native son and right-wing poster-boy Paul Ryan may have made the difference.
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