Meaning of booby prize | Babel Free

Definitions

A prize or status, often unwelcome, awarded as a joke or disincentive to the loser of a contest or for poor performance.

idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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