prize : Idioms & Phrases
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booby prize
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noun a prize given to one who finishes last in a contest
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door prize
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noun 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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nobel prize
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noun an annual award for outstanding contributions to chemistry or physics or physiology and medicine or literature or economics or peace
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Prize court
- a court having jurisdiction of all captures made in war on the high seas. Bouvier.
Webster 1913
Prize fight
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noun a boxing match between professional boxers for a cash prize
prizefight.
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- an exhibition contest, esp. one of pugilists, for a stake or wager.
Webster 1913
Prize fighter
- one who fights publicly for a reward; applied esp. to a professional boxer or pugilist. Pope.
Webster 1913
Prize fighting
- fighting, especially boxing, in public for a reward or wager.
Webster 1913
Prize master
- an officer put in charge or command of a captured vessel.
Webster 1913
Prize medal
- a medal given as a prize.
Webster 1913
Prize money
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noun any money given as a prize
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- a dividend from the proceeds of a captured vessel, etc., paid to the captors.
Webster 1913
Prize ring
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noun a square ring where boxers fight
boxing ring.
WordNet
- the ring or inclosure for a prize fight; the system and practice of prize fighting.
Webster 1913
prize winner
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noun the winner of a lottery
lottery winner.
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The prize ring
- the ring in which prize fighters contend; prize fighters, collectively.
Webster 1913
To exhibit a foundation or prize
- to hold it forth or to tender it as a bounty to candidates.
Webster 1913
To make prize of
- to capture. Hawthorne.
