Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person, animal, or object supposed to bring good luck or used as the symbol of an organization, such as a sports team.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A thing supposed to bring good luck to its possessor; a person whose presence is supposed to be a cause of good fortune.
- Of the nature of a mascot; having luck-bringing qualities; lucky: as, mascot snakes; a mascot dog or goat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs.
- noun Anything that brings good luck; especially, an animal kept by a group, as a sports team, to serve as a symbol and to bring luck.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun something thought to bring
good luck - noun something, especially a
person oranimal , used tosymbolize asports team ,company ,organization or othergroup
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person or animal that is adopted by a team or other group as a symbolic figure
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Reading up on Uga on wikipedia, the mascot is air conditioned and sits on bags of ice at games because the breed is susceptible to heart stroke.
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Reading up on Uga on wikipedia, the mascot is air conditioned and sits on bags of ice at games because the breed is susceptible to heart stroke.
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Stanford Cardinal (their mascot is a tree – meaning they only scare the minions of Isengard)
College Mascots: Inspiring to Insipid | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009
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I think it has something to do with the fact that their mascot is a sock monkey.
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But don't dare suggest that being a mascot is among the worst job in sports.
USATODAY.com 2005
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Pine they got what they call a mascot, bein 'a tame b'ar; an' up at
Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know Asa Don Dickinson 1918
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BTW, the term mascot was never applied to The Chief except by those attempting to disparage his image. "
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The newly elected mascot is the Rebel Black Bear, a cuddly man-sized bear who will wear a variety of costumes.
Black bear replaces Colonel Reb Linda Wheeler 2010
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The mascot is always a student who wins the role through tryouts.
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The Horned Frogs are legit and their mascot is freaking sweet!
chained_bear commented on the word mascot
What? Nobody listed this one already? Weird.
Thanks to sionnach for the suggestion!
October 28, 2007
nuxiy commented on the word mascot
We should get one of these for Wordie. Any suggestions? Perhaps someone could make a list of them.
May 20, 2009
vanishedone commented on the word mascot
See /tags/candidate for wordie mascot, with the winner tagged /tags/official wordie mascot.
There's also /tags/candidate for wordie mascot 2009, but thus far it's been used only once.
May 20, 2009