poster boy

noun

: a male poster child

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McGriff — the poster boy for the Clean Sluggers of America — sailed in unanimously. Jayson Stark, New York Times, 16 May 2025 For the first time in two decades, Cena, long the poster boy for WWE, found himself getting booed when he was actually supposed to be. Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025 Rogen transforming from stoner-comedy poster boy to Speaks Truth to Power guy is the kind of perception shift that could get Emmy voters seeing him in a new, award-worthy light. Joe Reid, Vulture, 19 Apr. 2025 Campbell also becomes a new poster boy for the ambitions of Reform UK. Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 2 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for poster boy

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 Jun. 2025.

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