cardboard cutout

A form of cardboard cut-out — A piece of card that has been cut into a particular shape, especially the shape of a person with that person depicted on it.

Meanings

nouncardboard cutout (plural cardboard cutouts)

plural cardboard cutouts

  1. alternativeAlternative form of cardboard cut-out.
    1 more example

    According to these keyboard warriors, the young men and women who survived the shooting are part of a big hoax, are liars, are mere cardboard cutouts – “crisis actors” who roam the country looking for mass shootings from which to promote their anti-gun message – all being pushed forward by the giant liberal machine that is Hillary Clinton’s robot attack army.

    2018 February 21, Jeff Pearlman, “Parkland students, ignore the idiots”, in CNN
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