Definition of poster boy
: a male poster child
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Neymar, Gabriel Jesus and Philippe Coutinho are the poster boys for the style of football many expect Brazil to bring to Russia, and all eyes will be on the PSG star's fitness battle throughout each stage of the competition.
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The poster boys for pace-and-space were suddenly clunky and crowded.
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But Tucker, who would become a poster boy for the Rockets’ turnaround in their 127-105 Game 2 win a day later at the Toyota Center, wasn’t having it.
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Partly, that’s because they’ve been donned ever-slinkily by a certain type of nonconformist poster boy for going on 60 years now: Hunter S. Thompson, Elvis, Ethan Hawke in Reality Bites, just to name a few.
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In more conventional times, Don Blankenship would be nobody’s poster boy for a successful US Senate candidate.
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Thursday, April 12 The Garden Chop Shop 2033 W. North Ave., 773-537-4440 Since 2011, twin brothers Wyatt and Fletcher Shears have positioned themselves as the poster boys of West Coast garage rock.
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Matthews is the new poster boy for Kentucky transfers.
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The Orioles haven’t been their homer-happy selves this season, and first baseman Chris Davis might be the poster boy for the team’s power shortage.
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First Known Use of poster boy
1946
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