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wooden spoon
noun
- a booby prize, esp in sporting contests
Example Sentences
Nine international defeats have followed including a World Cup quarter-final exit against Argentina, including a Six Nations Wooden Spoon and summer losses against South Africa and Australia.
Another Conservative MP Tim Loughton described it as like turning up "at a gun fight with a wooden spoon".
France ran in nine tries in a 53-3 rout of Ireland in Cork last year, in a disappointing campaign for the Irish which ended with the Wooden Spoon.
A side that finished with the Wooden Spoon last season after losing all five games could probably have done with an easier Six Nations opener than France away, but that's the way chips have fallen for Ireland.
A first Wooden Spoon since 2003 and a lack of cutting edge left their fans with little to cheer.
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