poster child

Noun

Meaning

a child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters to raise money for charitable purposes

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

fry example image child representative pride treasure obsession personification exemplar role model showpiece poster boy poster girl pride and joy
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Antonyms

sinner malefactor criminal loser offender culprit
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Hypernyms

shaver fry nipper child kid minor

Hyponyms

poster boy poster girl

Examples

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint. Rodney King

The current regime is, by any measure, the standard-bearer and global poster child for militancy, brute autocracy and corruption. If they are in fact students of my father, his ultimate act of refusing suppressive bloodshed in favor of exile should be their test. Reza Pahlavi

I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it. Raha Moharrak

Even Christian-the poster child for "smartass"-looked grim. Richelle Mead

What I did next was so impulsive and dangerous I should've been named ADHD poster child of the year. Rick Riordan

Bill Gates has become the patron saint of philanthropy and the poster child of rebirth, and from what I can tell, rightly so. John Battelle

Close letter words and terms

poster artist poster board poster boy poster color poster colour poster girl