booby prize
Example Sentences
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Croatia embraced the match in 2022 despite having gone one better in 2018 when they were runners-up to France - though Morocco head coach Walid Regragui described it as a "booby prize".
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
I really appreciate it in the book that you were not going to talk about becoming the "wise, sage woman" like it's some kind of booby prize.
From Salon ● May 6, 2023
I think that the situation is exactly the opposite, and that a “diminished” girl does not go running through the town, under so many horse noses, to find a booby prize.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 20, 2018
Any other week, “Gettin’ the Band Back Together” would have locked up Broadway’s booby prize, but it looks positively adequate by comparison with “Pretty Woman.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2018
A donkey is given as a booby prize to the one most often fooled.
From Entertainments for Home, Church and School by Seeger, Frederica
