0 a piece of card cut into a particular shape, especially the shape of a person with a large photograph of that person on it:
The ad features a woman standing next to a cardboard cutout of actor Ryan Gosling.
Their home is a museum now: the diners are cardboard cutouts and the roasted meats lining the sideboard are fake.
Children were shown a cardboard cutout of a triangle and asked to quickly locate the same triangle in a larger picture.
These films typically feature a heroine who comes across as a smart independent woman in the beginning but turns into a cardboard cutout by the end.
One of many things I hate about this book is the characters. Helen and Arnold are the flattest cardboard cut-outs I have ever come across.
And yet he has positive qualities too; he's no cardboard cut-out.
