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View synonyms for booby prize

booby prize

noun

  1. a prize given in good-natured ridicule to the worst player or team in a game or contest.


booby prize

noun

  1. a mock prize given to the person having the lowest score or giving the worst performance in a competition
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of booby prize1

First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences

I really appreciate it in the book that you were not going to talk about becoming the "wise, sage woman" like it's some kind of booby prize.

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I didn’t always want to do what felt like something of a booby prize.

This GOP lawmaker gets the booby prize for moral imbecility.

I think that the situation is exactly the opposite, and that a “diminished” girl does not go running through the town, under so many horse noses, to find a booby prize.

Any other week, “Gettin’ the Band Back Together” would have locked up Broadway’s booby prize, but it looks positively adequate by comparison with “Pretty Woman.”

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