"Darwin Award" meaning in English

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Proper name

Forms: Darwin Awards [plural]
Head templates: {{en-proper noun|s|head=Darwin Award}} Darwin Award (plural Darwin Awards)
  1. (humorous) One of the international honours awarded to people who supposedly help to improve the human gene pool by "removing themselves from it in a spectacularly stupid manner." Wikipedia link: Darwin Award Tags: humorous Categories (topical): Awards, Evolutionary theory Related terms: autodarwinate, Darwinism, natural selection, Nobel Prize, survival of the fittest Translations (international honours): 達爾文獎 (Chinese Mandarin), 达尔文奖 (Dá'ěrwén jiǎng) (Chinese Mandarin), Darwin-palkinto (Finnish), Darwin Award [masculine] (German), Βραβείο Δαρβίνου (Vraveío Darvínou) [neuter] (Greek), Darwin-díj (Hungarian), Пре́мия Да́рвина (Prémija Dárvina) [feminine] (Russian), Premio Darwin [masculine] (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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