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Bidone award

Bidone award

8.9
A yearly joke prize given to the most disappointing player in Italy's top football league
  • noun
  • Literature
translation icon : premio Bidone
  • After a poor season, the striker was nominated for the Bidone award.

Examples

  • The Bidone award is infamous among football fans for highlighting the league's greatest disappointments.

  • Did you hear who won the Bidone award this year?

  • Many players hope to avoid being associated with the Bidone award at all costs.

  • The Bidone award is often criticized for its negative focus.

  • The Bidone award is given each year to the most disappointing player in Serie A, highlighting their underperformance.

  • Fans eagerly discuss who will win the Bidone award after seeing their team's lackluster performances throughout the season.

  • Winning the Bidone award has become a badge of dishonor for players in Italy's top football league.

Synonyms

booby prize
vsBidone award
  • Informal
2 6.3

A small funny gift for the person who finishes last

is an annual satirical award for the season's most disappointing league player
fuck trophy
vsBidone award
  • Offensive
9.9

A small prize people call useless and not worth anything

is an organized annual satirical tradition targeting the season's most disappointing player

Surface Forms

Bidone award singular
Bidone awards plural

Morphology

Bidone + award

The first constituent 'Bidone' is not an English lexical item (dictionary entry missing) and refers to a culture-specific Italian term, so its meaning and connotations are not available to a typical B1 learner. While 'award' is transparent, the specific sense 'annual satirical prize for the most disappointing Serie A player' cannot be derived from the parts without cultural or lexical knowledge of 'Bidone', making the expression opaque.

Etymology

Bidone award comes from the Italian word bidone, which means 'trash can', and the prize was named like a 'golden bin' to make fun of poor players. The image of a player in a bin explains why the award shows the 'most disappointing player' of the season.