door prize

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   tickets are passed out at the entrance to a dance or party or other social function and a prize is awarded to the holder of the winning ticket

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Questions about door prize

What does door prize mean?

door prize means "tickets are passed out at the entrance to a dance or party or other social function and a prize is awarded to the holder of the winning ticket".

Is door prize a common word?

door 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.