booby prize en · NOUN
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Meanings
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(idiomatic) A prize or status, often unwelcome, awarded as a joke or disincentive to the loser of a contest or for poor performance.
At the end of the conference, they awarded him with a rubber chicken as a booby prize for complaining the loudest.
"Network Rail needs to take all the booby prizes going, for a ham-fisted, over-budget, over-time infrastructure project," local activist John Mair told RAIL.
2025 June 25, “Network News: Network Rail to pay compensation for Oxford Botley Road delays”, in RAIL, number 1038, page 9:
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Translations (6)
es premio limón (a prize awarded for poor performance) · fr prix parodique (a prize awarded for poor performance) · fi lohdutuspalkinto (a prize awarded for poor performance) · nl poedelprijs (a prize awarded for poor performance) · is skammarverðlaun (a prize awarded for poor performance) · th รางวัลยอดแย่ (a prize awarded for poor performance)