Thereafter we had to put up with Crewe elegantly stringing passes together while our overpaid boobies struggled.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES►the booby prize
(=one given as a joke to the person who comes last)· The cake I made for the competition was so bad I got the booby prize.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN►prize
· It could only be because she thought they'd win a kind of booby prize.· If they were giving out prizes for what you do in bed he'd have come away with the booby prize.
►trap
· He laid booby traps in his house, and built lookout posts for anyone who came on to his property.· And of course, that little shit has no right to try and ambush me or get me with a booby trap!· Numbers of large mammals, including elephants, will have fallen victim to booby traps and land-mines.· Within the first 10 minutes, we had 6 guys wounded from different booby traps, mainly hand grenades.· If it really was a bomb, unzipping the cover would almost certainly trip a booby trap.· These bodies were like booby traps.· Detectives want to establish whether Mr Jowett, 43, was killed by a booby trap or in an elaborate suicide.· We must have moved all of a foot and a half before we hit a booby trap.