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

Usage examples of mascot.

In the presence of his regiment, drawn up in the Beit-el-Mal, before his trembling bimbashi, whose lips were now pale with terror at the loss of his mascot, Mahommed Seti was drummed out of line, out of his regiment, out of the Beit-el-Mal.

I was surely the only canary who ever had been decorated for distinguished conduct under fire and that any regiment ought to be proud to claim me as a mascot.

Willie Wheelie had been the mascot for Nirvana Tires, who made tires for specialty vehicles.

Now the subject suddenly leaped to such importance that it overshadowed the ball-game which Yale was to play against Princeton, and the coming boat-race at New London, in which the phenomenally popular Inza Burrage was to be the mascot of the Yale crew.

There are still two statues of cartoony breakfast mascots standing guard by the doorway.

Apparently the mascots would eat almost anything, though they preferred dextrorotatory proteins and required certain easily acquirable trace minerals.

Mascots, unlike war dogs, I felt, should not be buried in the Marine Cemetery.

Many of the Guam dogs now have congenital short tails courtesy of their ancestor, the mascot of the 2nd and 3rd War Dog Platoons of the Second World War.

The Romans had too much class to invent animal mascots for their roads.

Once the Harney Armadillos started kicking ass on the basketball court, the local alumnae decided that the school needed an actual mascot, something on the order of the famous San Diego Chicken, only cheaper.

And thinking of Ten-Pound made me think, for a moment, of our barracks mascot back in the old days.

As he saw Trout's little mascot hand he blenched and I whipped forward and grabbed his knife hand with my left and slipped my right under his armpit.

Flying came as naturally to him as it did to the gyrfalcon mascot at the Air Force Academy.

Even the presence of our mascot Oharu in his poncho and derby hat failed to put heart into us.

Besides books, they also sold just about everything you could possibly imagine emblazed with the school logo and mascot, the Van Rensselaer Red Roosters.