bonus baby
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bonus baby
First recorded in 1940–45
Example Sentences
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Cartaya signed for $2.5 million as a 16-year-old but Barbary noted that his spending habits weren’t like that of the typical bonus baby.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2022
Bet Mel Kiper missed this bonus baby on his big board.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 30, 2021
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sandy Koufax didn’t spend an inning in the minor leagues, joining his home-town Brooklyn Dodgers as a bonus baby at the start of the 1955 season.
From The Guardian • Oct. 7, 2015
They described Mr. Bond as “a kind of political bonus baby of great potential who never has quite fulfilled the promise as a national leader that many of his admirers once envisioned.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2015
Wolff also recalled the June day in 1954 when hope entered Griffith Stadium from Payette, Idaho: 17-year-old Harmon Killebrew, not the “Killer” he would become, but a bonus baby who had just signed for $50.000.
From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2010
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