booby prize

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Meaning: (idiomatic)Aprizeorstatus, often unwelcome, awarded as ajokeordisincentiveto theloserof acontestor for poor performance.At the end of the conference, they awarded him with a rubber chicken as abooby prizefor complaining the loudest.2025June 25, “Network News: Network Rail to pay compensation for Oxford Botley Road delays”, inRAIL, number1038, page 9:"Network Rail needs to take all thebooby prizesgoing, for a ham-fisted, over-budget, over-time infrastructure project," local activist John Mair toldRAIL.

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