From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Daily lifecardboard cut-outˌcardboard ˈcut-out noun [countable]1Da picture drawn on cardboard so that it can stand up on a surface2REAL/NOT IMAGINARYa person or character in a book, film etc who does not seem natural or realthe sort of movie in which the characters are just cardboard cut-outsExamples from the Corpuscardboard cut-out• A furthertrick of the light throws their roller-coaster ridge into sharprelief, like a cardboard cut-out.• I also have a life-sizecardboard cut-out of our former no.4.