Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "cardboard cut-out".
Turning right, they saw huge blow-ups of Cecilia and Hermione as Donna Anna and Donna Elvira and even a cardboard cut-out of Georgie clutching a rock.
A hairdresser's next door to it displayed a faded cardboard cut-out of a blonde model in the window.
He reached out to catch hold of something so that he didn't fall down and his outstretched hand knocked over a cardboard cut-out of Tom Cruise, which toppled backwards and hit a cardboard Titanic, which in turn crashed against a cardboard Mighty Joe Young, and so on and so forth, like a row of candy-colored dominoes, stars falling against ships falling against monsters, all toppling back into a darkness so deep they were an indistinguishable heap.
Viewed from the side, his frame is so flat that he seems like a life-size cardboard cut-out.
But here they were anyway, one of them clutching a cardboard cut-out Kurt Cobain, one of them in a plaster cast, one of them crying, all of them bound to each other in ways that it would be almost impossible to explain to anyone who had just wandered in.
It's as if what passed as pleasure before was a cardboard cut-out of it.
Beyond it, the dead-white disk of the moon hung like a cardboard cut-out.