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POSTER CHILD
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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:
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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