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POSTER CHILD

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Example:

she was the poster child for muscular dystrophy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("poster child" is a kind of...):

child; fry; kid; minor; nestling; nipper; shaver; small fry; tiddler; tike; tyke; youngster (a young person of either sex)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poster child"):

poster boy (a male poster child)

poster girl (a female poster child)

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