Definition of "billboard" []

• A panel for the display of advertisements in public places, such as alongside highways or on the sides of buildings. (noun)
• The advertisement or message posted on such a panel. (noun)
• An introductory list of highlights from the program or text that follows, as in a broadcast or magazine. (noun)
• To advertise or proclaim on or as if on a billboard: billboarded as the workers' candidate. (verb-transitive)
• Nautical A ledge on the bow of a ship on which the bill of an anchor rests when the anchor is secured to the cathead. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I told her it was really a sign from the Great-Runway-Of-The-Sky trying to tell me to fulfill my dreams in the fashion industry maybe in the advertising sector, but I'm still waiting for that sign to happen *hoping for a falling billboard ... a murderous falling billboard*."
• "Butler said, "the term billboard probably mischaracterizes what is in the works.""
• "He said that the billboard is his personal project because he believes the American people have a right to know the facts about the president …"