BOOBY PRIZE Definition & Meaning

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booby prize

noun

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

booby prize

noun

a mock prize given to the person having the lowest score or giving the worst performance in a competition

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of booby prize¹

First recorded in 1885–90

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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.

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This GOP lawmaker gets the booby prize for moral imbecility.

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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.

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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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