booby prize
noun
1
: an award for the poorest performance in a game or competition
2
: an acknowledgment of notable inferiority
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After a number of more senior members failed to win enough support, the booby prize went to Johnson.
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New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2024
The booby prize goes to Facebook.
—Abram Brown, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
In body stiffness, though, the XJS takes the booby prize, flexing and shaking more than the others.
—Kevin Smith, Car and Driver, 30 Dec. 2022
And a booby prize awaits for whichever team happens to finish second: a possible date with England in London in the round of 16.
—Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 22 June 2021
Right now, that seems like more a booby prize than a reward.
—Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2021
The fact that a currently underemployed Democrat who was at 0 to 1 percent in the polls is now treating a chance to serve in the most elite legislative body in the country as a massive booby prize is a remarkable statement about the institution.
—Jennifer Steinhauer, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2019
The booby prize for whichever team scrapes together to finish as Group D’s runner-up is a likely round-of-16 matchup with France.
—Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 24 June 2018
The similarly unusual F Cinemascore is often a sign of misleading marketing—like audiences expecting mother!, the most recent honoree of that booby prize, to be a straightforward horror film.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2018
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New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2024
The booby prize goes to Facebook.
—Abram Brown, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
In body stiffness, though, the XJS takes the booby prize, flexing and shaking more than the others.
—Kevin Smith, Car and Driver, 30 Dec. 2022
And a booby prize awaits for whichever team happens to finish second: a possible date with England in London in the round of 16.
—Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 22 June 2021
Right now, that seems like more a booby prize than a reward.
—Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2021
The fact that a currently underemployed Democrat who was at 0 to 1 percent in the polls is now treating a chance to serve in the most elite legislative body in the country as a massive booby prize is a remarkable statement about the institution.
—Jennifer Steinhauer, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2019
The booby prize for whichever team scrapes together to finish as Group D’s runner-up is a likely round-of-16 matchup with France.
—Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 24 June 2018
The similarly unusual F Cinemascore is often a sign of misleading marketing—like audiences expecting mother!, the most recent honoree of that booby prize, to be a straightforward horror film.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2018
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