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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A male poster child.
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- noun idiomatic A male
poster child .
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- noun a male poster child
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oroboros commented on the word poster boy
This is distantly related to the jocund sort of phrase like: "If you look up epitome in the dictionary, you'll find your picture there!"
August 15, 2007
ramsler commented on the word poster boy
The most current sense for this word is as a metaphor for a particularly egregious or exemplary example of something, "Bill Gates is practically the Poster Boy for the dot.com revolution."
Of course, there appears to be a street artist in New York City called "Poster Boy" as well (from looking at the photos from flickr displayed with the entry).
June 19, 2009