Definition
A prize or status, often unwelcome, awarded as a joke or disincentive to the loser of a contest or for poor performance.
In Context
- "At the end of the conference, they awarded him with a rubber chicken as a booby prize for complaining the loudest."
- ""Network Rail needs to take all the booby prizes going, for a ham-fisted, over-budget, over-time infrastructure project," local activist John Mair told RAIL."