door prize
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of door prize
First recorded in 1950–55
Example Sentences
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“I go to the show every year and they kept calling out names for the door prize and it was in our area,” Watts-Gardner said.
From Washington Times • Jun. 4, 2017
Donated by Randy Lee, who got it as a door prize at the Losers’ Post-Holiday party in January.
From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2015
Something of an intangible door prize for most of this season’s Knicks, on the way out.
From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2015
If Brewer's rise sounds like the ultimate door prize in Arizona politics, think again: she inherited a largely uncooperative state legislature and a $3 billion deficit.
From Time • Aug. 24, 2010
He said he was happy to say that the grand door prize, as announced on the hand-bills, had been drawn by Mrs. Jeremiah Toynbee, and that Rajah was the prize.
From Shorty McCabe by Wilson, F. Vaux (Francis Vaux)
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