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Mascot   /mˈæskət/  /mˈæskˌɑt/   Listen
Mascot

noun
1.
A person or animal that is adopted by a team or other group as a symbolic figure.






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"Mascot" Quotes from Famous Books



... goin' over to Al's to-night and try to win my babe the first chicken for her farm. Whatta you bet? Us two ain't much on the sociability end, but we've played many a lucky card fifty-fifty. Saturday is our mascot night, too. Come, Babe; get on ...
— Gaslight Sonatas • Fannie Hurst

... he had it clean and neat in his fingers, "we must hang this up and dry it in the northeast wind; the wind is just right—nor'-nor'east—and there is no mascot like it, specially when—" Old Tom hesitated, with a slyly innocent smile in ...
— Pieces of Eight • Richard le Gallienne

... a mascot. You've brought us big luck. We never had such weather here but once and I don't care now how soon it comes on to blow. I reckon it'll begin to-night from the looks and we'll hike for ...
— Dick in the Everglades • A. W. Dimock

... machine. Mr. Burton, manager of the Temple Camp office, had told Tom that the only way to acquire confidence and readiness of speech was to formulate what he wished to say and to say it, without depending on any one else, and to this good advice, Peewee Harris, mascot of Tom's Scout Troop had made the additional suggestion, that it was good to say it whether you had anything to say or not, on the theory, I suppose, that if you cannot shoot bullets, it is better to shoot blank cartridges ...
— Tom Slade at Black Lake • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

... without a patrol he was by no means without a troop. He still held his position of troop mascot and official target for the mirthful Silver Foxes. He was a whole patrol in himself and held his own against raillery and banter, his stock of retaliatory ammunition seeming ...
— Pee-Wee Harris Adrift • Percy Keese Fitzhugh



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