poster child

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poster child

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From the usage of appealing young people and children in charitable advertisements.

noun poster children · posterchild

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

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noun prototypical example

日本語看板娘 kanbanmusume
Françaisfigure emblématique
DeutschParadebeispiel
Русскийфигура для подражания figura dlja podražanija

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@misc{poster_child_2026,
  title = {poster child},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/poster%20child},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}