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Darwin Award

Darwin Award noun: one of the international honours awarded to people who supposedly help to improve the human gene pool by removing themselves from it in a spectacularly stupid manner.

Noun

Darwin Award (plural Darwin Awards)

  1. (humorous) One of the international honours awarded to people who supposedly help to improve the human gene pool by removing themselves from it in a spectacularly stupid manner.

Forms of Darwin Award

pluralDarwin Awards

Questions about Darwin Award

What does Darwin Award mean?
Darwin Award means one of the international honours awarded to people who supposedly help to improve the human gene pool by removing themselves from it in a spectacularly stupid manner.
What part of speech is Darwin Award?
Darwin Award is a noun.
What is the plural of Darwin Award?
The plural of Darwin Award is Darwin Awards.

Words near Darwin Award in the dictionary

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  2. Darwen
  3. darwesh
  4. darweshes
  5. darwin
  6. Darwin Award
  7. Darwin Awards
  8. Darwin Day
  9. Darwin drift
  10. Darwin fish
  11. Darwin fishes

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