The word "mascot" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to an animal, person, or object used to represent a group and bring them good luck, such as "The school's mascot is a bear."
Our enthusiasm to tell the truth about David Beckham, that he was vastly overrated and much better deployed as the team mascot than as a walking-pace midfielder prone to yellow and red cards, was right.
One borough elected a mayor who campaigned as a monkey - the local football club's mascot.
She feels contemporary; a mascot for an increasingly large section of society that has little time for other people's ideas of who we are supposed to be.
It's an especially efficient form of vampirism, one with its own official beer and a mascot that invariably ends up looking like some sort of obliterated genital.
So did the mascot standing next to them, master of this particular ceremony – a 6ft cuddly bat with big ears, bigger wings, great big googly eyes and a Valencia kit.
One member of the left-wing protest group Code Pink wore a large Barack Obama mascot head and carried around a cardboard camera.
You believe the amnesia's real, but the psycho still lurks beneath: "you're a bit peripheral, like a regimental mascot".
It was Surrey County Cricket Club asking if my son would like to be the mascot next Sunday with an individualised team shirt and six tickets thrown in.
Although Wenlock and Mandeville were happy, in their first episode, to scamper about in front of the telly, they will soon, no doubt, be explaining to children why there is no point in a mascot, even an elite one, jumping out of a window and setting off along a publicly funded rainbow if it doesn't have a track record of finding pots of gold.
Random Australian connection - Sam Harrington is Australian and has found fame in Korea as a comedian, so much so that he became a good luck mascot for Korean football ahead of the 2014 World Cup.
Their mascot Hoffi stumbled and lost its head, the goals kept flying at Tischfußball rates (142 in 34 games) and their groundsman provided the main talking point of the entire year.
