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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An award given to the one who performs worst in a game or contest.
- noun Informal Acknowledgment of great inferiority, as in ability.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
prize .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun idiomatic A
prize orstatus , often unwelcome, awarded as ajoke ordisincentive to theloser of acontest or for poor performance.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a prize given to one who finishes last in a contest
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