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

• A gallery of the nation's most eccentric college mascots .
• That's the company, after all, that created the Subservient Chicken, Burger King's bizarre chicken-sandwich mascot.
• The Violets apparently love their name so much that in 1983upon re-launching the NYU basketball program after a 12-year hiatusthey personified it as a mascot.

News & Articles

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• Radnor High School nixes Red Raider mascot
  The Radnor High School mascot, the Red Raider, graduated in 2013 and will no longer attend football games and other sporting events.
  June 21, 2013 - Main Line Suburban Life
• Mascot Maniais one highlight of Relay for Life
  “Mascot Mania” is part of the kickoff of the Relay for Life this Friday night at Centerpoint Medical Center. Mack, the mascot of the Missouri Mavericks, is among the 15 or so mascots expected to be there. Others are from places such as IHOP and ChuckECheese.
  June 19, 2013 - The Examiner
• Mascot Mania will help launch Relay for Life Friday
  “Mascot Mania” is part of the kickoff of the Relay for Life this Friday night at Centerpoint Medical Center. Mack, the mascot of the Missouri Mavericks, is among the 15 or so mascots expected to be there. Others are from places such as IHOP and ChuckECheese.
  June 19, 2013 - The Examiner

Quotes

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• Osceola in Miami Herald
  This whole ordeal with the mascot, we were on common ground,Osceola said.
• John Whitehead in Reuters India
  Mascot Finance depositors can be assured they will get back all of the money they are entitled to under the scheme,Treasury Secretary John Whitehead said in a statement.
• Peter McGauran in Brisbane Times
  The bad luck and there's been a lot of it, starts on the eighth of August when the five stallions come from Japan, a week before influenza is detected in that country,Mr McGauran said. "They land at Mascot and that is a quarantine zone, we...