poster boy

noun

: a male poster child

Examples of poster boy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

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

Rock Springs, meanwhile, isn’t far from Laramie, where Matthew Shepard became the casualty of a hate crime in 1998, and the poster boy for a movement that, in the grand scheme, is still only finding its footing. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 30 July 2026

Antonio Bonheur is this week’s poster boy for rampant welfare fraud in Massachusetts. — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 7 July 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