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cardboard cut-out

 noun
     
Related topics: Daily Life
cardboard cut-out [countable]
1D a picture drawn on cardboard so that it can stand up on a surface
2 a person or character in a book, film etc who does not seem natural or real:
the sort of movie in which the characters are just cardboard cut-outs
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