booby prize

1. 1.

   a prize given to one who finishes last in a contest

   Broadertrophy

   Narrowerwooden spoon

Questions about booby prize

What does booby prize mean?

booby prize means "a prize given to one who finishes last in a contest".

Is booby prize a common word?

booby prize is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.