poster boy

noun

: a male poster child

Examples of poster boy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Lawes did everything right, a poster boy for both metal detecting and archaeology. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 Nov. 2026

Wong was a poster boy of the 2014 Umbrella Movement, in which protesters used umbrellas to fend off police pepper spray. — ABC News, 5 Nov. 2026

Perhaps the most important thing Apple ever did was establish itself as the poster boy of privacy in technology. — Zev Fima, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2026

Scotland may have underwhelmed at the recent World Cup, being eliminated in the group phase, but McTominay was the nation’s poster boy in the weeks leading up to the tournament. — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1946, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for poster boy

• corduroy
• fauntleroy
• iroquois
• ahoy
• alloy
• annoy
• carboy
• convoy
• cowboy
• decoy
• deploy
• destroy