fuck trophy
- noun
- Offensive
:
trofeo de mierda
- She called the participation ribbon a fuck trophy—it meant nothing to her.
Examples
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Winning that cheap medal was just a fuck trophy to him, and he didn't care about it.
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The award felt like a fuck trophy after realizing how little effort was required to win.
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Winning that fuck trophy didn't mean anything to him.
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She called it a fuck trophy after losing the competition.
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She referred to the participation award as a fuck trophy because it felt worthless to her.
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After he realized how easy it was to obtain, he considered the prize a fuck trophy and felt no pride in it.
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To her, the trophy from the contest was just a fuck trophy since she knew everyone received one.
Synonyms
13
9.9
Something that is very bad and should be ignored
2
6.3
A small funny gift for the person who finishes last
A prize often a small wooden object for the person or team finishing last in a competition
How Valuable
Surface Forms
Morphology
fuck + trophy
The meaning is partly derivable: 'trophy' as a prize is literal and the expletive 'fuck' conveys contempt/dismissal, so a learner who knows both words can plausibly infer a dismissive or worthless prize. However, using 'fuck' attributively to create a dismissive noun phrase and the precise nuance (colloquial, vulgar dismissiveness) may not be fully predictable to a B1 learner without exposure, so transparency is limited.
Etymology
Fuck trophy probably comes from adding the rude word fuck to trophy to show that a prize is not important. One popular story says people used it for small awards like participation ribbons, so today it means 'a meaningless prize'.