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    [Noun]  | "post*er" | \ ˈpō-stər \


    1: a usually large printed sheet that often contains pictures and is posted in a public place (as to promote something)

    2: a usually large printed sheet that is put on a wall as decoration

    3: a person who posts something online


    Origin: 1818 ;

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    [Noun]  | "poster" 


    1: a swift traveler


    Origin: 1538 ;

     {see: |post:4|post:4};

    [Noun]  | "poster boy" 


    1: a male poster child


    Origin: 1946 ;

    [Noun]  | "poster child" 


    1: a child who has a disease and is pictured in posters to solicit funds for combating the disease

    2: a person having a public image that is identified with something (such as a cause)


    Origin: 1938 ;

    [Noun]  | "poster color" 


    1: an opaque watercolor paint with a gum- or glue-size binder sold usually in jars —called also poster paint


    Origin: 1925 ;

    [Noun]  | "poster girl" 


    1: a female poster child


    Origin: 1896 ;

    [Noun]  | "poster session" 


    1: a presentation of information on a series of posters that may include drawings, photographs, charts, graphs, and textual data relating to a specific subject


    Origin: 1974 ;

    [Noun]  | "four-post*er" | \ ˌfȯr-ˈpō-stər \


    1: a bed with tall often carved corner posts originally designed to support curtains or a canopy


    Origin: 1837 ;

    [Verb]  | "poster" 


    1: to put up posters on walls or surfaces : to affix posters to


    Origin: 1918 ;

    [Noun]  | "poster" 


    1: a sheet bearing an announcement for posting in a public place;


      * e.g., " ... we put up a hundred posters announcing the concert "



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    [Noun]  | "four-poster" 


    1: as in bunk bed, couch;


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     [ "poster" ]

    1: A phrase usually stated during a basketball game in which one player embarasses another player by either vigorously blocking his/her shot or emphatically dunking over someone

      * e.g.,  ... (after somebody dunks over Kwame Brown) 

     [ "poster" ]

    1: Bulletin board author

      * e.g.,  ... A user who authors a "post" in an online bulletin board. 

     [ "poster" ]

    1: Parent over shoulder abbreviation. Used as a disguise for POS.

      * e.g.,  ... John: POSTER? 

     [ "poster" ]

    1: an ugly little boy that looks like a girl. usually has an ogre looking girlfriend, and loves to call people rude and aweful names. all together he is a bad person..

      * e.g.,  ... "OMG, dude you're being such a poster right now." 

     [ "posterize" ]

    1: a Basketball term meaning to embarrass some one usually while slamming the ball over them. It refers to the guy whos being dunked on in basketball posters.

      * e.g.,  ... "Wow that guy just got posterized!" 

     [ "Posterity" ]

    1: All future generations ahead. All the unborn generations collectively. All the people who will exist in the future. All succeeding generations. -Emeasoba George

      * e.g.,  ... Posterity is synonymous with offspring. 

     [ "posterized" ]

    1: A slang term depicting a play in basketball. In said play, a player dunks the ball over top or in front of another player, making a play so picturesque that it may appear on a poster, hence the term, posterized.

      * e.g.,  ... a) Yo man! VC just posterized the Pistons! Ben Wallace, you's a poster! 


     [ "posterized" ]

    2: Some players may have their own versions of this, such as Greg Ostertag of the Sacramento Kings. When someone is 'posterized' by Ostertag, they are 'Osterized'. This pay is known as 'dirty' and 'ugly' and is generally unwanted throughout the NBA.

      * e.g.,  ... b) (taken from live stat tracking)  

     [ "Posterized" ]

    1: Term in Basketball when one player dunks emphactally on an opposing player or in their face.

      * e.g.,  ... French center Frederic Weiss became the ultimate definition of posterized in history by Vince Carter of team USA in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. 

     [ "Poster" ]

    1: Really hott chicks that just sit at parties, and do nothing but look hot, talk shit, text, dance for five seconds, and do absolutely nothing with guys. Compared to a poster, because just like a poster, you can only look at their inutile beauty.

      * e.g.,  ... Damn, look at dat poster over there doin' nuttin but postin'. Look at dat poster sitting on another poster like a post-it note. Man, you see that fine ass bitch over there sitting with her friends doing nothing but texting, ignoring guys, and gossiping. Yeah, don't talk to her she's a poster. 

     [ "postering" ]

    1: Generally defined only as a noun, "to poster" is the act of taking a flyer or poster and attaching it to a surface with tacks , tape, magnets, staples or other methods.

      * e.g.,  ... DANG YA'LL ! Can you believe Fritz has been postering Austin Texas for over 20 years? 

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