"booby prize" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-au-booby prize.ogg [Australia] Forms: booby prizes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} booby prize (plural booby prizes)
  1. (idiomatic) A prize or status, often unwelcome, awarded as a joke or disincentive to the loser of a contest or for poor performance. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: wooden spoon Translations (a prize awarded for poor performance): poedelprijs [masculine] (Dutch), lohdutuspalkinto (Finnish), prix parodique [masculine] (French), skammarverðlaun [neuter, plural] (Icelandic), premio limón (Spanish), รางวัลยอดแย่ (Thai)
    Sense id: en-booby_prize-en-noun-lZ0CW9-~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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