poster child

poster child - English

Alternative forms

Noun

poster child (plural poster children)

  1. (chiefly Canada, US, idiomatic) One who is a prototypical or quintessential example of something.
    • He's a poster child for militant vegetarianism.

Hypernyms

  • exemplar

Hyponyms

Translations

  • French: figure emblématique f
  • German: Paradebeispiel (de) n
  • Japanese: 看板娘 (kanbanmusume)(lit. poster daughter)
  • Swedish: praktexempel (sv) n
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